AMERICA - "green monkey" Tablature
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 23:48:06 -0500
From: Steve Demkin <SDEMKIN@dcccnet.dccc.edu>
Subject: Tab: Green Monkey (America)
Green Monkey (written by Dewey Bunnell)
From America's 1973 Album, Hatrick
Play with a steady heavy rock beat
Intro 1: (distorted lead guitar) 4x
e-----------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------
D----2--2--2--2--2--2---2--2--2--2--2--2--0--0--0--0--
A----0--0- 0--0--0--0---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--
E-----------------------------------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
Intro 2: (full band) 2x
||: Am / D / | Am / D / :||
(use this chord pattern over verses)
Verse 1
When the deep blue night is running close on your tracks,
And you can feel the green monkey crawling across your back.
Don't take me so real you forget how to feel,
Don't let the threat of the dagger turn your heart into steel.
Chorus (3rd time with tempo change (slow)
and 3-part harmony, not unlike CSN!)
Em9 A7
Smell the perfume of a silent dream,
Em9 A7
Fly the ocean read a story to me.
Em9 A7
Speak the wisdom of a redwood tree,
C (tacet)
speak to me. (to Intro 1 & 2)
Verse 2
So you think that star-cluster shining bright in the sky,
Will speak the fate of your evening, tell the truth to your lie?
Don't let the features you read control the tickets you buy,
Soon as you learn that you live you're just beginning to die. (chorus)
Solo over verse chords after second chorus --
end solo and return to chorus with new tempo.
Solo tabs (two guitars)
e--12------------------------
B-----10--10--8--10--12--13--
G----------------------------
D----------------------------
A----------------------------
E----------------------------
Both guitars play the above
together 2x, an octave apart
then separate parts below:
e---------------------------
B---10---8---10---12--------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A---------------------------
E---------------------------
(guitar 1)
(guitar 2 answers back)
e---------------------------
B---------------------------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A-- 14--15--17--15--14------
E---------------------------
(guitar 1 repeats)
e---------------------------
B---10---8---10---12--------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A---------------------------
E---------------------------
(guitar 2 answers back)
e---------------------------
B---------------------------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A------------------15-14----
E---------------------------
(guitar 1 repeats)
e---------------------------
B---10---8---10---12--------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A---------------------------
E---------------------------
(guitar 2 answers back)
e---------------------------
B---------------------------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A---14--15--17--15--14------
E---------------------------
(guitar 1 repeats)
e---------------------------
B---10---8---10---12--------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A---------------------------
E---------------------------
(guitar 2 answers back)
e---------------------------
B---------------------------
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A----------15--14--12--10---
E---------------------------
Song fades over verse chords with improvised guitar lead --
check out the record (this song is not a 'typical' America
song and features Joe Walsh as guest lead guitarist).
This musical interpretation has been removed due to a legal threat from Moses & Singer LLP,
representing the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) and
The Music Publisher's Association of the United States (MPA).
Unfortunately, these threats are fueled by greed and being masked by a "copyright infringement." They claim tab sites are
"hurting the songwriters," but it's a known fact that the publishing companies garner most of the
revenue. Instead, they would prefer you to purchase the
official AMERICA tablature
which is an option we've always given our users. And due to the highly error-prone nature of tabs on the internet, many choose to go this route.
These companies also do not realize that tablature sites help to promote their artists.
For more information on this onslaught, you can read the
NY Times Article.
We hope one of the larger tablature sites will have the money to fight this. Until then, we urge you all to keep tabbing songs and sharing them in any way you can.
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