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Comments (and/or questions) welcome, as always - especially about those
pesky chords-with-a-different-bass-note;I don't really have what my
music theory teacher (a bass player himself) used to call "bass-ear".
I already did some touching up since the first draft.
enjoy
Hans
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Intro:
|C/D Bb7+11| Amaj9 B7+5| Cmaj7/G F7+11| Bb/Eb A7+11|
|Bb/Ab | G7 b13||
||: Cmaj7 |Fmaj7 Am/C | Em7 | Am7 |
Mona's be - come a child of the night
|C13 |Fmaj7 | Bb7+11 |
out It's only for bare necessities
| Cmaj7 |Fmaj7 Am/C | Em7 | Am7 |
She says she's had it up to here with light while the city
|C13 |Fmaj7 | E7+11 |
sleeps, That's when she comes alive , yes the
Chorus:
|| Am7/G | Am6 | Fm/A | Em/A C/A |
night belongs to Mona When she's dancing all alone, forty
| C/D Bb7+11 | Amaj9 B7+5 | Cmaj7/G F7+11 | Bb/Eb A7+11 |
floors above the city, CDs spinnin', AC hummin' Feelin'
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|Bb/Ab |(1)Bb/Ab G7 b13:|| (repeat for 2nd verse)2nd
pretty ______________________
|(2) Bb/Ab || to bridge:
|Fm maj7 /Ab | Fm6/Ab (Fm7/Ab) |
Was it the fire down - town, that
|Bbm7 | Cm7 |
turned her world a - round, was it some
| Bbm7 Eb7 | Dbmaj7 |
guy, or lots of different things, We all wonder
| B/Db Db/Eb | B/Db Db/Eb |
where she's gone. That sunny girl we used to know, Now every
| B/Db (2/4)| Amaj9 (4/4)| Dmaj9 || Dmaj 9 F#m7 |
night we get the Mona Show Maybe its
|Fmaj7 Am/C | Em7 | Am7 |
good that she's a - bove it all Things don't seem as
| C13 |Fmaj7 | Bb7+11 |
dark, When you're already dressed in black
|Cmaj7 |Fmaj7 Am/C | Em7 | Am7 |
We try not to see the writing on the wall What happens
|C13 |Fmaj7 | Bb7+11 |
tomorrow, When the moonrays Get so bright, When she
| Am | Am/G# | Am/G | Am/F# (Fm7 |
rises, Towards the starlight Miles above the city's heat, will she
| Em7 | Am7 Dm7/ A | Dm7/G | Dm7/G Dm7b5/Ab |
fall hard , Or float softly to the street tonight the
(chorus)