Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey

The Beatles

Intro: -|--4--5--9-----4--5--9-----4--5--9-----4--5--9--------------------- -|--5--5--10----5--5--10----5--5--10----5--5--10-------------------- -|--4--4--9-----4--4--9-----4--4--9-----4--4--9--------------------- -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ Verse: Come on, come on, come on, come on Come on it's such a joy, come on, it's such a joy Come on let's make it easy, come on let's make it easy Make it easy, make it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey While the verses are going on, the rhythm guitar repeats the intro parts over and over with slight rhythmic variations. The lead guitar does dozens of variations along the following lines: Listen closely and hear 1001 ways to play those few notes. -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|-----5--------7--5-------------------------etc.------------------- -|--7-----5--7-----------5--7--7b(9)--5--7---etc.------------------- -|--------------------7----------------------etc.------------------- All guitars should should, of course, do the boogie-woogie shuffle starting with the -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|-----------7--7--9--9--7--7--9--9--7--7--9--9--7--7--9--9--------- -|-----------5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--------- Take it easy -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|-----------7--7--9--9--7--7--9--9--7--7--9--9--7--7--9--9--------- -|-----------5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--------- -|------------------------------------------------------------------ Take it easy -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|------------------------------------------------------------------ -|-------4--4--6--6--4--4--6--6--4--4--6--6--4--4--6--6------------- -|-------2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2------------- -|------------------------------------------------------------------ Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my ... .. and here's the fun part. Cool the way the chords "turn around" in the second phrase: -|-------------10b(12)--b(12)10-------------------15b(17)--b(17)15------- -|--/10-----8--------------------8~--b(17)15--12------------------------- -|-------9----------------------------------------------------------14~-- -|----------------------------------------------------------------------- -|----------------------------------------------------------------------- -|----------------------------------------------------------------------- ..Monkey

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