My Monkey Guitar Tab

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Song: My Monkey
Artist: Marilyn Manson
Written by: Daisy
Lyrics by: Marilyn Manson,Charels Manson
Album: POAAF
tabed by: Per "Pogo" Stenberg
fanta98@hotmail.com or pogo@pianotabs.nu


Very bad song but the sax is cool and the solo is not that
bad. Well here it is... Pogo on Sax...


Intro   (Sax)
(Listen is the end of this riff you will here Trent Reznor
and Sean Beaven at Sax to)

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-----2----4-4-4-5---2------2-2---------2--4-4-4-5----2------
---3---3----------3---3----------3---3------------3-----3-3-
-3----------------------3----------3------------------------
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Verse 1 A  (Guitar)
This I'm not 100% sure of...

 D      ?

-2~-----3~---4~---
-3~-----3~-----5~-
-2~-----2~--------
-0------0---------
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Verse 1 B  (Bass)
I think Gein was better Bass player then Twiggy.

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-0-0-----0-0--0-0-----0-3-
-----0-3----------0-3-----Chours     (Guitar)
(This should be right)

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-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2-5-Chours (Lead guitar)
This is not right but it sucks anyway. 

---9-8----9-8---9-8---12-12-
-8------8-----8-----8-------
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----------------------------Main riff   (Sax)

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-----2----4-4-4-5---2------2-2---------2--4-4-4-5----2------
---3---3----------3---3----------3---3------------3-----3-3-
-3----------------------3----------3------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------Verse 2 A    (Guitar)

D      ?

-2~-----3~---4~---
-3~-----3~-----5~-
-2~-----2~--------
-0------0---------
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------------------Verse 2 B   (Bass)

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-0-0-----0-0--0-0-----0-3-
-----0-3----------0-3-----


Verse 2 C  (Sax or keyboard?)
I think this is a keyboard or Sax
played backwords. This about 1% correct but...

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Verse 2 D  (Guitar)

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-0-0-----0-0--0-0-----0-3-
-----0-3----------0-3-----


Chours     (Guitar)

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-0-2-2-0-2-2-0-2-5-


Chours (Lead guitar)

---9-8----9-8---9-8---12-12-
-8------8-----8-----8-------
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Break A  (Bass)

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-0-----------0-----------0-----------0--------------------
----0-3----0----0-3----0----0-3----0----0-3-3h5p3h5p3h5p3-


Break B Solo (Guitar)
Cool solo...

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-------------------7-7--------------
-7-7-7-7h9-9-9p7-7-----7------------
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Main riff   (Sax)

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-----2----4-4-4-5---2------2-2---------2--4-4-4-5----2------
---3---3----------3---3----------3---3------------3-----3-3-
-3----------------------3----------3------------------------
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Outro      (guitar)
This the same as the Main riff but you use a wah-wah pedal.

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-----2----4-4-4-5---2------2-2---------2--4-4-4-5----2------
---3---3----------3---3----------3---3------------3-----3-3-
-3----------------------3----------3------------------------
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Main riff   (Sax)

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-----2----4-4-4-5---2------2-2---------2--4-4-4-5----2------
---3---3----------3---3----------3---3------------3-----3-3-
-3----------------------3----------3------------------------
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I know this tab suck but it is better the the rest 
(There is only 1 more tab of this song)
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          song: my monkey
          band: marilyn manson
          i had a little tab: jacob wall

          standard tuning. all through the horn section is basically solos but,
          ill show you the other riffs. i'll do the solos that are in the
          foreground later.

          riff 1 (theres a constant wah-wah guitar going on under the horn
          section. daisy's just strumming the same thing over and over)
          e||-----------------------------------||
          B||-----------------------------------||
          G||-----------------------------------||
          D||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||
          A||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||
          E||--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--||


          riff 2 (when lyrics come in. requires whammy bar. strum the five string
          riff find of slow. the last two "5's" he bends the strings down kind of
          weird, not actually sliding down)
         
e||--------------------------------------------8-----------8---------||         
B||----------------------8---------------------8-------------5------||         
G||--------------------------------------------5-----------------5--||         
D||--7---------------------7~~~----------------5---------------------||         
A||--7---------------------7~~~----------------0---------------------||         
E||--5---------------------5~~~--------------------------------------||


          riff 3 (this is behind "what I make is what I am")
          e||-----------------------------------------------------------------
          B||-----------------------------------------------------------------
          G||-----------------------------------------------------------------
          D||-----------------------------------------------------------------
          A||-----------------------------------------------------------------
          E||--0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0-2-5--


          riff 3 continued
          e||----------------------------------------------------------------||
          B||----------------------------------------------------------------||
          G||----------------------------------------------------------------||
          D||--2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-/////////7---||
          A||----------------------------------------------------------------||
          E||----------------------------------------------------------------||


          riff 4 (bridge riff)
          e||-------------------------------------------------------------||
          B||-------------------------------------------------------------||
          G||-------------------------------------------------------------||
          D||-------------------------------------------------------------||
          A||----------------------------3----------------------------5^--||
          E||--5--5-0-3-5-5-3-5--5-0-3-5----5--5-0-3-5-5-3-5--5-0-3-5-----||


          thats it, pretty simple and kind of cool to play, especially that bridge
          riff.

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture John Rhythm Player	#1 by John McElyea at Jun 24, 1970 at 8:38 AM EST
	I'm retarded.. I mispelt alot there. Opinions* for one.. Probably alot more mistakes, but I can't see any skimming over it so meh..

No Picture Lead Player	#2 by Michael Leathers at Jul 4, 1970 at 9:37 AM EST
	some of the lyrics are from a Charles Manson song "Mechanical Man" from his album LIE. As for the song, you notice that a kid is singing it, then Manson, then at one point they are both singing at the same time so I think its about how Manson wants to be a kid again and how people sometimes look dead.

No Picture Nick Rhythm Player	#3 by Nick Carrasco at Mar 8, 1972 at 12:41 PM EST
	Robert Pierce was VI years of age when Pierce guested on this song. Robert's father owner the Marilyn Manson Family's early cassette releases, and played them around Rob. "There's points where my voice and the childs voice mutate together and you can't tell who is who, I think that's my favorite part of the record, because its where I really get to become a child again" -M.M. AP Magazine (altpress.com)

No Picture Satan SAF! Rhythm Player	#4 by Satan SAF! Lucifer at Jan 18, 1978 at 3:03 AM EST
	it's retarded

No Picture FUCK Rhythm Player	#5 by FUCK OFF at Sep 13, 1981 at 3:08 AM EST
	Mechanical Man

No Picture everett Wanna Be	#6 by everett at Oct 12, 1981 at 8:41 AM EST
	MARQUICERISE. You ARE absolutely correct. The Lyric "We are our own wicked gods With little g's and big dicks" And the redundant message "Big dicks big dicks etc" definately confirms a reference to the lost penis of Osiris. I must admit I am a little disappointed that more manson fans havn't picked up on the Masonic, Babylonian, Egyptian, etc, references that are littered throughout Mansons works. In case you havn't found some of the others please check lyric interpretations of Kinderfeld,King Kill,Great Big White World, Meat For A Queen, Wrapped In Plastic.

No Picture Zach Wanna Be	#7 by Zach Pain at May 10, 1982 at 7:53 AM EST
	The line "Little gs and big dicks" refers to the obelisks common to Masonic temples and Headstones of Masons. They are Obelisks, with a globe at the top, and the Masonic diamond with the G in it.

No Picture Jer Average	#8 by Jer at Aug 24, 1982 at 5:52 AM EST
	This song itself is a childlike nursery rhyme with much darker implications adapted from the song Mechanical Man written by Charles Manson, this particular line is very subtle yet but also an incredible overt Masonic reference with the "little G's" being the G that appears within the square& compass with represents the Great Architect, God as well as geometry, the ordered principle of the universe, and the "big dicks" representing the obelisks, a notorious Masonic symbol adopted from Egyptian mythology to represent the phallus of Osiris, which the "Little G's" are often engraved upon, particularly as the gravestone of a Mason. -Nick Nacht

No Picture James Wanna Be	#9 by James Makowiecki at Nov 22, 1983 at 4:30 PM EST
	I think the lyric is very god... he says that hes monkey is dead... but he don't know beacause everyone looks dead to him... and i think it's thru...

No Picture IM A MAN WHO C Rhythm Player	#10 by IM A MAN WHO CHANGED INTO A BEAST at Oct 13, 1985 at 7:08 AM EST
	One of my friends who is a huge manson fan told me (and I agree with him) that this song is actually questioning why people commit violence, what in society drives them to it. This is started off with that guy going "why are the children doing what they're doing?" I can't be sure but I think some of the more distorted lyrics sound like "sanity is a myth." Basically I think manson is saying that people aren't insane and don't commit violence for any set reason (violent movies etc), it's just that people are insane. A child with a toy monkey and a toy train doesn't sound sinister, but it could be :P

No Picture Luke Professional	#11 by Luke Goudreault at Feb 12, 1986 at 6:46 PM EST
	Oh, i totally missed MARQUICERISE's first post. I apologize for repeating him.

No Picture kev Average	#12 by kev fitzgerald at Sep 21, 1987 at 9:12 PM EST
	Charles Manson did write some of the lyrics. He wrote "I had a little monkey, I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread. Along came a choo-choo and knocked my monkey coo-coo and now my monkey's dead." For the record, Charles Manson never really killed anyone, he was just a very highly intelligent person who persuaded people to kill people such as Sharon Tate.

No Picture Brad Lead Player	#13 by Brad Vincent at Mar 15, 1989 at 4:13 PM EST
	One of my friends who is a huge manson fan told me (and I agree with him) that this song is actually questioning why people commit violence, what in society drives them to it. This is started off with that guy going "why are the children doing what they're doing?" I can't be sure but I think some of the more distorted lyrics sound like "sanity is a myth." Basically I think manson is saying that people aren't insane and don't commit violence for any set reason (violent movies etc), it's just that people are insane. A child with a toy monkey and a toy train doesn't sound sinister, but it could be :P

No Picture sY Average	#14 by sYsTem oWnS rOx at Jul 5, 1989 at 7:04 PM EST
	Personally, I think this song is about a mixture of things.. I think the reference to Charles Manson's "Mechanical Man" is probably just Marilyn showing his respect of Charles' views. I think the lines 'I had a little monkey, sent him the country and fed him on gingerbread. Along came a choo-choo knocked my monkey Koo-Koo and now my Monkeys dead' is about having a child, who ends up insane, or depressed.. Or just a criminal, after the parent indulges the child too much, or not enough. The monkey resembles the child, The gingerbread resembles the indulgments (or possibly a sarcastic way of saying they don't get enough), The train resembles something happening to the child, sending him/her insane, depressed, criminal-like. The death of the monkey suggests the child has drifted so much from the rest of the world, that they are pretty much dead ("At least he looks that way"). The added 'Then again don't we all' is a suggestion that so many people end up this way, it doesn't really matter that much. In the end we all die I guess. The line 'What I make is what I am, I can't live forever' is suggesting that it is the parents fault for making the child this way, for spoiling the child too much, or not loving them enough. It is also a suggestion that parents end up going insane, or depressed (Or along the lines of) when the children turn out like they do, but it is their own fault for treating them the way they did. As in, they made the children that way, which had the same effect on them. "We are our own wicked gods" - What happens to us is all our choice, fault and results of our behaviours etc. It is up to us what happens. We are our own gods. "With little g's and big dicks" - This line is all about the image of people these days. 'little g's' - Refers to the very small amount of clothes worn by women and men who are supposedely attractive, or "hot". Even when people were alot of clothes, it is still usually quite revealing. 'and big dicks'- Basically the same thing.. But referring to the size of mens genitals being so important in modern society's sexual needs. It could go the same for the size of womens breasts. The link between this line and the "we are our own wicked gods" line is that we are doing so much to ourselfs that we do not need to do. Beauty shouldn't be about the size of your underwear, or your genitals. People should stop making what they where and what they look like such an issue. "Sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise" - Similar to the above lines.. But more reference to sex. The things people do these days to get pleasure is ridiculous. Alot of the stuff we do to ourselfs is slowly eating away at us all. Not as in we are all dying because of our sexual habbits, but the world is turning into a ridiculous one, were sex is everything. Basically.. We are all sex-crazed animals, and those who aren't end up dying in a bad way.. Half of us are disgusting, and half of us are emo. We need to find a happy medium. Anyway.. That is just babble =\ That's just what I get from this song.. No-one else has to get the same thing from it. Just my oppinions ^_^ Thanks, Brad

No Picture Nick Average	#15 by Nick Vanderstelt at Apr 20, 1990 at 12:11 PM EST
	charlie manson! a serial killer who saw the human race as monkeys. so he murders people but in his eyes monkeys!!! my human victim aka monkey is dead!!! hahaha such a cute and ironic song!

No Picture Brad Lead Player	#16 by Brad Vincent at May 29, 1993 at 2:43 AM EST
	has any one noticed that marilyn has some strange obbesion with monkeys he mentions monkeys in alot of his songs!

No Picture jga Average	#17 by jga qup at Mar 10, 2003 at 6:25 AM EST
	A lot of lyrics to this song are missing...maybe I should contribute them.

No Picture Josh Average	#18 by Josh Smith at Apr 18, 2004 at 5:46 PM EST
	Yes, the monkey is definatly symbolic... That's as far as my tiny brain has gotten, though. ^^ I think it sounds about right that part of this symbolism would involve how people look dead (that seems to be a recurring theme in his music), but perhaps the monkey symbolises a part of one's psyhe instead? For example, if these lyrics were a dream and we were to analyze it al Fruedian like (or Jung, whatever floats your boat), it would probably represent childish dreams, or something like that... Take the line "and I fed him on gingerbread" for example. Or perhaps that could represent how society sugarcoats everything and that isn't healthy... After all, it isn't healthy for a monkey to be fed on ginderbread... Oo! Maybe the monkey is primal instinct and the "choo choo" (train) represents society, and how it represses such thing... Oh, but that is just a babble. ^^ Beside all that, it is still a wonderfully amusing song.

No Picture Daniel Average	#19 by Daniel Gordon at Sep 20, 2006 at 10:20 AM EST
	Note the name to of the original poster concerning this song. Let this be a lesson to you as to who appreciates art and who does not. And now... I'd heard that the song uses lyrics that were originally written by Charles Manson...does anyone know exactly what lyrics those are?

No Picture Chris Average	#20 by Chris Tucker at Jan 25, 2007 at 6:19 AM EST
	heres the original charles manson lyrics (written as mechanical man): I AM A MECHANICAL MAN (aka MECHANICAL MAN) [there is much chanting and "ohm"-ing in the background] click click click click cling clong cling clong cling clong cling clong cling clong cling clong cling clong cling clong TALK: I am a mechanical man A mechanical man And I do the best I can Because I have my family I am a mechanical boy I am my mother's toy And I play in the backyard sometime I am a mechanical boy [chanting] SING: The past is an illusion Postulated mocked up through confusion The future, will be confusion In your, in your illusion I had a little monkey And I sent him to the country And I fed him on gingerbread Long come a choo-choo And knocked my monkey cuckoo And now my monkey's dead Ban won't wear off 'Cause my monkey's dead TALK [girl]: I'm so mechanical I - SING [Charlie]: Ban won't wear off 'Cause my monkey's dead In your head go in and lay down [chanting] TALK: I wonder how, a brown cow SING: Could say moo Down the road come my junko pardner London bridge is falling down TALK: Hey you're goin' the wrong way [guy]: I am? SING [Charlie]: I see you out there Joe And you think your name is Joe I see you out there Sam And you think your name is Sam You ain't Joe, you ain't Sam You just am TALK: Have ya got a level?