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   alt.music.steely-dan      More than just a funky pair of dildos      2,181 messages   

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   Message 539 of 2,181   
   D-unit to Hans van Dongen   
   Re: the night belongs to Mona: Chords (a   
   10 Apr 06 10:34:56   
   
   From: c0f@intrex.net   
      
   Thanks for you labor.   
      
      
   db   
      
      
   "Hans van Dongen"  wrote in message   
   news:443639ee$0$11072$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...   
   > Best viewed in a fixed-width font, with a line length > 75;   
   > 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.   
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   > enjoy   
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   > Hans   
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   > Intro:   
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   > |C/D    Bb7+11| Amaj9   B7+5| Cmaj7/G    F7+11| Bb/Eb   A7+11|   
   > |Bb/Ab        |       G7 b13||   
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   > ||: Cmaj7        |Fmaj7          Am/C   | Em7     | Am7  |   
   >        Mona’s be - come a child   of the   night   
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   > |C13  |Fmaj7             | Bb7+11          |   
   >   out      It's only for    bare necessities   
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   > | Cmaj7              |Fmaj7        Am/C      | Em7   | Am7             |   
   >        She says she’s  had it up to here with  light      while the city   
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   > |C13     |Fmaj7              | E7+11                 |   
   >   sleeps,     That’s when she   comes alive , yes the   
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   > Chorus:   
   > || Am7/G           | Am6              | Fm/A        | Em/A C/A    |   
   >     night belongs to   Mona  When she’s   dancing all alone, forty   
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   > | C/D    Bb7+11   | Amaj9   B7+5 | Cmaj7/G    F7+11 | Bb/Eb    A7+11   |   
   >   floors above the   city,   CDs    spinnin’,  AC      hummin’  Feelin’   
   >                   ______________________   
   > |Bb/Ab          |(1)Bb/Ab       G7 b13:|| (repeat for 2nd verse)2nd   
   >   pretty          ______________________   
   >                  |(2) Bb/Ab             || to bridge:   
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   > |Fm maj7 /Ab             | Fm6/Ab  (Fm7/Ab) |   
   >      Was it the fire down - town,       that   
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   > |Bbm7               | Cm7               |   
   >   turned her world a - round, was it some   
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   > | Bbm7   Eb7                | Dbmaj7               |   
   >   guy, or lots of different    things, We all wonder   
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   > | B/Db          Db/Eb            | B/Db              Db/Eb           |   
   >    where she’s   gone. That sunny   girl we used to   know, Now every   
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   >   
   > | B/Db        (2/4)| Amaj9  (4/4)| Dmaj9 || Dmaj 9  F#m7      |   
   >   night we get the    Mona          Show            Maybe its   
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   > |Fmaj7               Am/C     | Em7     | Am7                    |   
   >   good that she’s a - bove it    all         Things don’t seem as   
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   > | C13  |Fmaj7            | Bb7+11                |   
   >   dark,     When you’re   already dressed in black   
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   > |Cmaj7            |Fmaj7             Am/C    | Em7     | Am7           |   
   >     We try not to   see the writing   on the   wall         What happens   
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   > |C13                 |Fmaj7            | Bb7+11             |   
   >    tomorrow, When the   moonrays Get so   bright,  When she   
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   > | Am                | Am/G#           | Am/G            | Am/F#   (Fm7 |   
   >   rises, Towards the  starlight  Miles  above the city’s   heat, will she   
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   >   
   > | Em7                  | Am7    Dm7/ A | Dm7/G | Dm7/G  Dm7b5/Ab  |   
   >   fall hard , Or float   softly  to the    street       tonight the   
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   > (chorus)   
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