COUNTING CROWS - "a long december" Tablature
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:00:33 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur" <mmazur@WPI.EDU>
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "A Long December"
Tab: "A Long December," Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)
Intro: F Bb Gm Bb
F Bb Gm
Verse:
Bb F C Gm
A long December and there's reason to believe
Bb F Bb *(Gtr plays fill 1)
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm Bb F C Gm
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'
F Bb
Now the days go by so fast
Chorus:
Guitar plays this over the chorus
|--------1-----------1-----|--------3----------3--|
|--1--1-----1--1--1-----1--|--3--3-----3----------|
|--2-----------1-----------|--3-----------3/5-----|
|--3-----------3-----------|--5-------------------|
|--3-----------3-----------|--5-------------------|
|--------------------------|----------------------|
^^^^^^^
These notes played 1st
time only
F Bb Gm
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F Bb Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
F Bb Gm
If you think that I could be forgiven... I wish you would
F Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb
Na na na na na na na na na
F Bb Gm
Na na na na yeah
The smell of hospitals in winter (w/ fill 1, then fill 2 here)
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls *
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl *(and fill 3 here)
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California... I think you should
Solo: (same chords as intro)
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2--|--2--2--2--0--2-----2--2--2--2--0--2--|
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|-----------------------------------------------|
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|--0--2--2--0--2--2--0--2--3--3--3--3--3--2--0--|
|-----------------------------------------------|
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|--------------------------------------------------|-----|
|--------------------------------------------------|-----|
|--0--2--2--0--2-----0--2--2--2--2--0--2--0-----0--|-----|
|--------------------------------------------3-----|--3--|
|--------------------------------------------------|-----|
|--------------------------------------------------|-----|
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not
show her
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last *(fill 2)
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass *(fill 4)
And it's one more day up in the canyon *(fill 5, played w/ a slide)
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean... I guess I should
Fills: 1 2 3 4 5
|----------|-|---------|-|--------10--|-|-----6--|-|--------|
|----------|-|--3/4\3--|-|------------|-|-----6--|-|--8/10--|
|-------3--|-|--3/5\3--|-|--7/10------|-|-----7--|-|--8/10--|
|-------3--|-|---------|-|------------|-|--8--8--|-|--------|
|--1/3-----|-|---------|-|------------|-|--------|-|--------|
|----------|-|---------|-|------------|-|--------|-|--------|
Repeat guitar solo, except for last measure, then continue with:
|---------------------------|--------------------------|
|----------6-------6--8--6--|--10--10----10------------|
|-----5/7-----5/7-----------|--12b(14)--(14)r12p10h12--|
|--3------------------------|--------------------------|
|---------------------------|--------------------------|
|---------------------------|--------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|----------------13--|
|--10--10---13--13-------10-----------------|---------10/13------|
|--12b(14)------12b(14)--12b(14)--12p10h12--|--10~~~-------------|
|-------------------------------------------|--------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|--------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|--------------------|
|---------17b(19)r17--|
|--13/15--------------|
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End on F
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