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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  C   C7   C   F9maj7

-VERSE-
C7                            C
Well I rode the green across this country.
C7                      C
Horses lived and died to take me
F9
Men I killed to help me get there, further west I died to take me.
C7                               C
Blackened face and dirty laundry.
C7                      C
Many days since I have eaten.
F9
Found myself a family.

Broke my back so I could feed them.

-CHORUS-
C7               C             C7               C
High in the wind.
F9
Standing in the sun.
                   C7                     C               C7             C
We're gonna' raise up the heavens.
F9
With a shovel and a gun.
Am
I was so much younger then.
C
I would never ever listen.
Am
I am so much older now.
C
I thought that things would end up different.
Am      G
Farewell, lover in green.

-VERSE-
C7                  C
Elizabeth she is my lady.
C7                             C
Says the prayers and does the learnin'.
F9
Waking up all the children.

Making love in early morning.
C7                          C
We took to building up the cities.
C7                              C
We built the churches in our cities.
F9
Happy in the green country.

And in the green they buried me.

-REPEAT CHORUS-

-BRIDGE-
Am           C                    Am            C
Oh. She sang hymns that made me cry.
Am           C
Oh. She danced so tender.
Am     C                  G
As 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                  C             C7              C
Well I'm dead now.
                                         F9
My wife Elizabeth is at my side.
                                      C7             C             C7
          C
I've got children all around me.
                           F9
I've got grandchildren.
               C7                C               C7                C
I've got great grandchildren.
                      F9
I've got great great grandchildren.
                                      C7             C              C7
            C
Too many for me to remember.
                                   F9
Maybe one of them is you?

-CHORUS-

-chords-   C     C7    F9    G     Am
               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