Dave Matthews Band – Proudest Monkey (Guitar Acoustic)

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| This is the live version taken from the album Crash, on Youtube at | Here both solos are taken by the trumpeter. | I've set out the words so they line up with the chords to help singer/players. | Later in the song you'll hear the horns leading you in - showing you when to change to C. | The acoustic guitar riff is tabbed below. picking directions p=thumb, i=index. | Base the third finger of your fretting hand on the 6th fret of the D string. | Use finger 1 for the 4th frets on E and A. Use finger 2 for the 6th fret on A. | If your voice is higher or lower please slide up or down to suit. [Intro]
   G#               C#       G#               C#
|  1    2   3   4   5   6    1    2   3   4   5   6

e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
b|-------------------------|-------------------------|
g|-------------------------|-------------------------|
d|--------6-----6-------6--|--------6-----6-------6--|
a|----------6-------4------|----------6-------4------|
e|-4-4---------------------|-4-4---------------------|
   p p    i p   i   p   i    p p    i p   i   p   i
[Verse 1]
G#              C#          G#                C#
Swi.........................ing               in this

G#              C#          G#                C#
Tree                                    Me oh I

G#              C#          G#                C#
Bounce around so well               Branch to branch  Limb to

G#              C#          G#                C#
Limb     you    see                    All in a day’s

G#              C#          G#                C#
Dream                   I’m stuck             Like the other

G#              C#          G#                C#
Monkeys     here                              Me I am a

G#              C#          G#                C#
Humble monkey                           Sitting up in my

G#              C#          G#                C#
Tree again                                    But then came a

G#              C#          G#                C#
Da..............ay                  I climbed out of these

G#              C#          G#                C#
Safe limbs                                 Ventured a-

G#              C#          G#                C#
-way                Walking tall,   head high up and

G#              C#          G#                C#
Singing                                     I went to the

G#              C#          G#                C#
City                        Car horns,        corners and the

G#              C#          G#                C#
Gritty                                  Now i am the

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Proudest    monkey                            you ever

G#              C#          G#                C#
Seen                        Monkey see, monkey do yeah
[Instrumental 1] G# C# G# C# [Verse 2]
G#              C#          G#                C#
                                              Then came the

G#              C#          G#                  C#
Day                         Staring at myself I turned to

G#              C#          G#                C#
Question me                          I wonder do I want

G#                  C#      G#                C#
The simple, simple  life                 that I once

G#              C#          G#                   C#
Lived in a way              You know things they were so

G#              C#          G#                C#
Quiet then                  In a way  those   were my

G#              C#          G#                C#
Better days                      but  now  I  am the

G#              C#          G#                C#
Proudest monkey                               you ever seen...

G#              C#          G#                C#
...seen                     Monkey see, monkey do yeah
[Instrumental 2] G# C# G# C# [Outro]
G#              C#          G#                  C#
    Monkey see, monkey do        Monkey see, monkey do