Monkey

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  • All guitars tuned down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
    Note: All chords given are relative to downtuned guitars;
    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
    |--------------------------|
  • |--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
    |--------------------------|
     
  • Verse:
     
    D
  • All dressed up
    No place to go
    Bm
  • Hey monkey, when you gonna show
    E
    your face around me?
  • I know all the wrongs and rights
    And I just want a little light to fall on me
     
  • D Bm E
    |--------------------------|-----------4--2-------|
    |-----3-----3-----3-----3--|--------0--0--0-------|
  • |-----2-----2-----4-----4--|-----1----------------| Guitar 1 plays
    |--0-----0-----------------|--2-------------------| this twice over
    |--------------2-----2-----|----------------------| the verse, while
  • |--------------------------|----------------------|
    | | |
    |--------------------------|--12-------------NH---|
  • |--------------------------|--12--------------|
    |--------------------------|--13--------13--------| Guitar 2 plays
    |--------------------------|--14---/14------------| this
  • |--------------------------|----------------------|
    |--------------------------|----------------------|
     
  • Chorus:
    Bm D A E
    Hey monkey, where you been?
  • This lonely spiral I've been in
    Hey monkey, when can we begin?
    Bm D E
  • Hey monkey, where you been?
     
    Bm D A E
  • |--------------------------|-{0}----------4\2--------|
    |--------3-----------3-----|--------2-----0-0--------|
    |-----4-----4-----2-----2--|-----2-----2-------1-----|
  • |--4-----------0-----------|--2-------------------2--|
    |--------------------------|-------------------------|
    |--------------------------|-------------------------|
  • *The high E note is played only
    by guitar 2
     
  • Bm D A E
    |--------------------------|--------------4--5--4--2--|
    |--------3-----------3-----|--------2-----0--0--0--0--|
  • |-----4-----4-----2-----2--|-----2-----2--------------|
    |--4-----------0-----------|--2-----------------------|
    |--------------------------|--------------------------|
  • |--------------------------|--------------------------|
     
    Bm D A E
  • |--------------------------|--------------2--0--0--|
    |--------3-----------3-----|--------2-----0--0--0--|
    |-----4-----4-----2-----2--|-----2-----2--------1--|
  • |--4-----------0-----------|--2--------------------|
    |--------------------------|-----------------------|
    |--------------------------|-----------------------|
  •  
    Bm D A
    |--------------------|--0--|
  • |--------3-----3--3--|--2--|
    |-----4-----4--2--2--|--2--|
    |--4-----------0--0--|--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:
  •  
    Asus4 - A
     
  • E A D
    Just get the world off your shoulders
    and close your pretty blue eyes
  • Em Bm D
    Hey monkey, what's life without an
    Asus2 A
  • occasional surprise?
     
    Solo: (Guitar 1 plays D Bm E, as in verse)
  • Guitar 2 plays:
    |------------------------------|
    |------------------------------|
  • |--18--18--18--18--18--18--18--|
    |------------------------------|
    |------------------------------|
  • |------------------------------|
     
     
  • |-----------17-----------17-----------|
    |-------------------------------------|
    |--18b(19)------18b(19)------(19)r18--|
  • |-------------------------------------|
    |-------------------------------------|
    |-------------------------------------|
  •  
     
    |----------------------17-----------|---------------------------|
  • |-----------------------------------|---14--14------------------|
    |--16/18--18--18b(19)------(19)r18--|--(18)r16--14--16--14--14--|
    |-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
  • |-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
    |-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
     
  •  
    |--------------------------------------------|
    |--15b(17)--(17)--(17)--(17)r15--------------|
  • |--------------------------------14--14--14--|
    |--------------------------------------------|
    |--------------------------------------------|
  • |--------------------------------------------|
     
     
  • |--------------------------------------------|--16b(18)r16------|
    |--17b(19)--(19)--(19)--(19)r17--------------|--------------17--|
    |--------------------------------14--14--14--|------------------|
  • |--------------------------------------------|------------------|
    |--------------------------------------------|------------------|
    |--------------------------------------------|------------------|
  •  
    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?
  •  
    |--17--|-----------17--------17--------|
    |------|-------------------------------|
  • |------|--18b(19)------(19)------(19)--|Guitar 2 plays this over the
    |------|-------------------------------|second half of the verse
    |------|-------------------------------|
  • |------|-------------------------------|
     
     
  • |-----------17------17------|-----------------------------|------|
    |---------------------------|----------17--17--17---------|------|
    |--(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
    |-------------------------------|--15/17--|
    |--14--(14)r12--14--15b(17)r15--|---------|
  • |-------------------------------|---------|
    |-------------------------------|---------|
    |-------------------------------|---------|
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