Monkey Lyrics

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:59:55 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur"
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Monkey"
Tab: "Monkey" Counting Crows
All guitars tuned down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Hence, all chords sound 1/2 step lower than written
Intro: (chords played by piano)
|* Asus4 A Asus4 A *| played twice
|--------------------------| Guitar 2 plays this on the repeat
Verse:
All dressed up
No place to go
Hey monkey, when you gonna show
your face around me?
I know all the wrongs and rights
And I just want a little light to fall on me
|-----2-----2-----4-----4--|-----1----------------| Guitar 1 plays
|--0-----0-----------------|--2-------------------| this twice over
|--------------2-----2-----|----------------------| the verse, while
|--------------------------|--12-------------NH---|
|--------------------------|--13--------13--------| Guitar 2 plays
|--------------------------|--14---/14------------| this
Chorus:
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
*The high E note is played only
by guitar 2
During the choruses, guitar 1 plays the above part, with minor
variation.
Guitar 2 roughly doubles guitar 1's part during the first chorus.
Verse: (Guitar 2 tacet)
Well I'm all messed
That's nothing new
Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
But all I ever need is everything
* (w/ fill 1)
Hey monkey, where you been?
* (w/ fill 2)
This lonely spiral I've been in
* (w/ fill 3)
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Fills: 1 2 3
|-----------10b(12)-----|--|----------8/10--|--|--(9)r7--7--|
|--(10)r9---------------|--|--(10)r8--------|--|------------|
Bridge:
-s4
Just get the world off your shoulders
and close your pretty blue eyes
Hey monkey, what's life without an
occasional surprise?
Solo: (Guitar 1 plays D Bm E, as in verse)
Guitar 2 plays:
|--18b(19)------18b(19)------(19)r18--|
|--16/18--18--18b(19)------(19)r18--|--(18)r16--14--16--14--14--|
|--15b(17)--(17)--(17)--(17)r15--------------|
|--------------------------------------------|--16b(18)r16------|
|--17b(19)--(19)--(19)--(19)r17--------------|--------------17--|
Verse:
(Guitars tacet)
Got nowhere but home to go
* (both guitars enter with the E chord)
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
(Right here, the guitars switch channels;
gtr. 1 is now right panned, gtr. 2 is now left)
(Guitar 1 plays only the chords now, guitar 2 plays the part below)
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
|------|--18b(19)------(19)------(19)--|Guitar 2 plays this over the
|------|-------------------------------|second half of the verse
|--(19)r18------18------18--|--18--16--------------16/18--|--19--|
Chorus:
(Played exactly like the second chorus, with the fills in gtr. 2)
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
* (w/ Fill 4)
Hey monkey, where you been?
* (w/ Fill 5)
Hey monkey, where you been?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Fill 4
|--12--(12)r10/12--12b(14)r12--|
Fill 5
|--14--(14)r12--14--15b(17)r15--|---------|