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Mungo City

Spacehog

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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 02:07:20 EDT
From: CheshirBat 
Subject: s/spacehog/mungo_city.tab


"Mungo City" from _The Chinese Album_ by Spacehog
Written by Royston Langdon
Hog (Space) Music, Ltd. BMI

tabbed by Jeremy Joseph (CheshirBat@aol.com)
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It starts off with the main riff:

Guitar 1 (electric)
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--2--1--0-----------------------|--2--1--0------------------------||
D|-----------2--2-----------------|-----------2--2------------------||
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x4)

Guitar 2 (slide with flange)
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|-----------------7--\--5--------|-----------------7--\--5---------||
G|-----------------7--\--5--------|-----------------7--\--5---------||
D|-----------------7--\--5--------|-----------------7--\--5---------||
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x4)

Guitar 3 (distorted electric)
	         A                      G#     G
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|---------------7--7-7--7-7--7-7-|--7---6-----5--5-5--5-5--5-5-----|
A|---------------7--7-7--7-7--7-7-|--7---6-----5--5-5--5-5--5-5-----|
E|---------------5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|--5---4-----3--3-3--3-3--3-3-----|

Guitar 3
    G            C		        C#     D
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|---------------5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|--5---6-----7--7-7--7-7--7-7-----||
D|--5------------5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|--5---6-----7--7-7--7-7--7-7-----||
A|--5------------3--3-3--3-3--3-3-|--3---4-----5--5-5--5-5--5-5-----||
E|--3-----------------------------|---------------------------------||(x2)

And starting with the 5th bar of the intro another guitar comes in:

Guitar 4 (distorted/overdriven electric)
       slow bends
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---7b========(9)----------------|---5b==========(7)---------------|
D|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---7b========(9)----------------|---9b=========(11)---------------|
D|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|


Then the verse:

Guitar 3 (with what sounds like a synthesized banjo)
    A              G#                G               A
                  Welcome to this  empty ministry of plenty
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|--7---------------6-------------|--5---------------7--------------|
A|--7---------------6-------------|--5---------------7--------------|
E|--5---------------4-------------|--3---------------5--------------|

    D                          D#      E
                                    As I'm sure you know...
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--7---7---5---7---7---7---5---8-|--9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9--||
D|--7---7---9---7---7---7---9---8-|--9---9--11---9---9---9--11---9--||
A|--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---6-|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7--||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x2)


Then the prechorus:
   F#                                B                  C#
   Dossers dream of gossamer And   kissing with tongues
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
D|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
A|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--2---2---2---2---2---4----------|
E|--2---2---2---2---2---2---4---5-|---------------------------------|

    D                          C#    B                   A
    Well they're falling in love     with anyone
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---6-|--4---4---4---4---4---2----------|
D|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---6-|--4---4---4---4---4---2----------|
A|--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---4-|--2---2---2---2---2---0----------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|

   F#                                B                  C#
    Races from all places and all under one sun
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
D|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
A|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--2---2---2---2---2---4----------|
E|--2---2---2---2---2---2---4---5-|---------------------------------|

    D                                E
    well it sure was no fun          So I got up and ran ran ran...
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
D|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
A|--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|

Chorus:
from Mungo City
    A                                G   F
   Mungo City                            Where are you?
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|--7-----------------------------|--5-\-3--------------------------|
A|--7-----------------------------|--5-\-3--------------------------|
E|--5-----------------------------|--3-\-1--------------------------|

    E   D                            D   E
        You make us grey            when skies are blue..
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--9-\-7-------------------------|--7-/-9--------------------------||
D|--9-\-7-------------------------|--7-/-9--------------------------||
A|--7-\-5-------------------------|--5-/-7--------------------------||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x2)


The complete lyrics:

(main riff)

(Verse:)
Welcome to this empty ministry of plenty
As I'm sure you know
We're clearly on display here
To remind you should you stray from here
Or decide to roam

(Prechorus:)
Dossers dream of gossamer
And kssing with tongues
Well, they're falling in love with anyone
Races from all places and all under one sun,
well it sure was no fun
So I got up and ran, ran, ran from Mungo City

(Chorus:)
Mungo City- Where are you?
You make us grey when skies are blue
Mungo City, in the sky
Keeps a watchful eye on you and I

(Main riff)

(Verse:)
Don't think you're even thinking
Even though you're thinking: keep it underground
They're sending out distress codes
And playing with your mind though
You won't hear a sound

(Prechorus:)
Nazis in the Japanese cars from Japan
Well, they're falling in love if onlythey can
I'm telling you the tribesman wouldn't stand for this, man
Well, it sure was no scam
So I got up and ran, ran, ran from Mungo City

(Chorus:)
Mungo City- Where are you?
You make us grey when skies are blue
(and) Mungo City, in the sky
Keeps a watchful eye on you tonight

(Main riff)

(Chorus with vocoder)

(Chorus)

(Main riff repeated with vocoder until fade out...)

Weeee.... that was fun.
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