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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:05:47 -0500 (EST)
From: EMalm1@aol.com
Cc: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Tab: Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Monument in Green
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Monument in Green
>From the album Midnight Radio
Words and Music by Todd Park Mohr
Transcribed by Eric Malm
-INTRO-
C7 (x32310@1)C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) F9maj7
-VERSE-
C7 (x32310@1) CWell (x32010@1)I rode the green across this country.
C7 (x32310@1) CHorses (x32010@1)lived and died to take me
F9Men (101011@1)I killed to help me get there, further west I died to take me.
C7 (x32310@1) CBlackened (x32010@1)face and dirty laundry.
C7 (x32310@1) CMany (x32010@1)days since I have eaten.
F9Found (101011@1)myself a family.
Broke my back so I could feed them.
-CHORUS-
C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) CHigh (x32010@1)in the wind.
F9Standing (101011@1)in the sun.
C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) CWe're (x32010@1)gonna' raise up the heavens.
F9With (101011@1)a shovel and a gun.
AmI (x02210@1)was so much younger then.
CI (x32010@1)would never ever listen.
AmI (x02210@1)am so much older now.
CI (x32010@1)thought that things would end up different.
Am (x02210@1) GFarewell, (320003@1)lover in green.
-VERSE-
C7 (x32310@1) CElizabeth (x32010@1)she is my lady.
C7 (x32310@1) CSays (x32010@1)the prayers and does the learnin'.
F9Waking (101011@1)up all the children.
Making love in early morning.
C7 (x32310@1) CWe (x32010@1)took to building up the cities.
C7 (x32310@1) CWe (x32010@1)built the churches in our cities.
F9Happy (101011@1)in the green country.
And in the green they buried me.
-REPEAT CHORUS-
-BRIDGE-
Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) COh. (x32010@1)She sang hymns that made me cry.
Am (x02210@1) COh. (x32010@1)She danced so tender.
Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) GAs (320003@1)I held you in the green.
*Bridge ends with a flurry of notes I do not know.
-INTRO CHORDS WITH HARMONICA IN C-
-SPOKEN VERSE-
C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) CWell (x32010@1)I'm dead now.
F9My (101011@1)wife Elizabeth is at my side.
C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) CI've (x32010@1)got children all around me.
F9I've (101011@1)got grandchildren.
C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) CI've (x32010@1)got great grandchildren.
F9I've (101011@1)got great great grandchildren.
C7 (x32310@1) C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) CToo (x32010@1)many for me to remember.
F9Maybe (101011@1)one of them is you?
-CHORUS-
-chords- C (x32010@1) C7 (x32310@1) F9 (101011@1) G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1) 0 0 0 3 0
3 3 0 2 0
2 2 3 0 2
0 0 2 0 2
1 3 1 3 1
0 0 3 3 0
