Big Head Todd

Big Head Todd - Monument In Green guitar tab

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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

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