Montauk Monster Chords & Tabs
Took me a lot of time to tab this, I hope you enjoy.
Laura Stevenson And The Cans - "Montauk Monster"
Capo 2nd fret
Intro
E|---3------3-------3------3--3-----------------------------|
B|----0------0-------0------0-------------------------------|
G|-0---3--0---3--0----3--0---0------------------------------|
D|-0------0------0-------0----------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------|
Verse
[use tabs to figure out how the specific chords are picked]
G / Gaddb3 C / C7
E|---3--3---------|---0--0-------|--------------------------|
B|--0-0--0-0-0-0--|--1-1--1------|--------------------------|
G|-0---0--0-3-3---|-----0--0-3-0-|--------------------------|
D|----------------|-2------------|--------------------------|
A|----------------|--------------|--------------------------|
E|----------------|--------------|--------------------------|
G / Gaddb3 G / Gaddb3
I will be a bird, I will be a monster,
C / C7 G / Gaddb3
Sleeping on a perch underneath an overpass.
Em C C7 C
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------0-3--0----------------------------------------------|
D|---2--2--2--2----------------------------------------------|
A|--2--3---3--3----------------------------------------------|
E|-0---------------------------------------------------------|
Em C C7 C
Passers-by will pour their eyes out,
Em C C7 C
Pull at my heart and beg me to move,
Em C C7 C7 (like Intro)
but I do what I'm told and you can not pass through.
Verse 2
Gaddb3 G C
E|----------3-3--3--3-----0-0--0--0-------------------------|
B|-0-0-0-0--0--0--0--0----1--1--1--1------------------------|
G|3-3-3-3---0---0--0--0---0---0--0--0-----------------------|
D|----------0-------------2---------------------------------|
A|----------2-------------3---------------------------------|
E|----------3-------------0---------------------------------|
Gaddb3 G G
I will be a train, you will be a stow away,
C G/Gaddb3
Creeping down below my steaming locomotive.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/l/laura_stevenson_and_the_cans/montauk_monster_tab.html ]
Em C C7 C7
And while we pour through a series of tunnels,
Em C C7 C7
I'll pour my boiling water
Em C C7 C7 G
And scald raw every inch of your skin.
[this part is also fingerpicked, can't be bothered to tab exactly]
B
And what a spectacle,
C Em C G
To see you all unraveled and exposed.
B
Well you got too close,
C Em C
those hangers-on were bound to burn.
Cm E C G Gaddb3
It was only your turn, I warned you, I said, "Who goes there?"
Em C G Gaddb3
Who goes there?
Em C Gaddb3
(Intro)
[normal chords]
G
I will be a star, a very bright and shining star,
C G
and I'll have a neutral charge and packed packed particles.
Em C C7
So whenever where you are,
Em C C7
Unless you're fast as hell and you move with me,
Em C C7 G
You'll see a spectral shift the likes of which that you have never seen.
B
And what a spectacle,
C Em G C G
To see me folding in on myself, I implode.
B
Well you got too close,
C Em G C
That field of force, of course you'll explode.
Cm Em C G
You will explode, I warned you, I said, "Who goes there?"
Em C G (many times)
(also sometimes Em C G Gaddb3 during the solo)
End with: Em C C7
Outro
E|-----------------------------------------3----------------|
B|-0-03-3----0-03-3--0-0-3-3--0-0-3-3--03-------------------|
G|--3--0-3--3-3--0-3--0-0-0-3--0-0-0-03--4------------------|
D|-------0---------0--------0-------------5-----------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------|
