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This song seems like a combination of their cover of "Girl From The North Country" and Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe". It is destined to be one of the Crows' most best, though I say that every time they release anything. The guitarist (not sure whether it is Dan Vickrey but I assume so) fingerpicks this song. I will tab out the intro because it gives a pretty good representation of the pattern and variations he uses throughout the song. The bass is played by alternating the thumb between the lowest and second lowest string every 1/4 note. When he does the walkdown during the verses ("And I buy all my days"), he seems to only hit the bass note of each chord so I have notated it as such. In the "chorus", for lack of a better term, the D-G-D-G parts ("All night long"), he strums the chords. Now on to the bridge. It gets sort of difficult here because the second guitar starts playing a big part and there is also more occasional strumming. At the beginning I wrote Bm7 but I'm not completely sure. It sounds good to use a Gmaj7/B but I don't think that's actually being played on the acoustic guitar. At "colored lights", a very distinctive picking pattern appears and I have written it out there. The chord names represent those picking patterns until the end of the bridge, at which point you can return to normal chord forms. Sorry if it is confusing, but I promise I could have made it much worse. Sorry to make you read so much. I hope my tab does this beautiful song justice. *Lyrics adapted from LyricsMania.com Intro: C e|----------------|-------0-------|---------------|-----------------| B|--1---------0---|-3---------3---|-----------0---|-----------------| G|--------0-------|---------------|-------0-------|-------0-0-------| D|------2-------2-|-----2-------2-|-----2-------2-|-----2-----2---2-| A|--3-------3-----|-3-------3-----|-3-------3-----|-3-----------3---| E|----------------|---------------|---------------|-----------------| Verse 1: G Close the door on a short night D Lift the lid on the daylight Em C 6:09 West Tennessee time C /B /A G And I buy all my days G D C At the same place where the girl sells her nights C /B /A G To a God of ocean tides. Chorus: D G D All night long, G C G Writing poems to California Em Melodies of failure Am And the people I have thrown D G D G C G A - way, meanwhile, somewhere west of Carolina Em In a congregation of strangers A We are digging holes to China C Then we pray to our reflections C In the water when it rises. Verse 2: G I said headlights pin the highway down D Jesus spins the world around Em C And I’ll spend all my tomorrows coming down C /B /A G Goodbye all my days. D I know I said I never loved you C C /B /A G But I might just try again tonight. Bridge: Bm7(Gmaj7/B) C Truck stops and river gods D G Gas stations of the Cross D Following a ghost, Am Following a ghost, C D I pray the water wash away Em D Cmaj7 The memories and the cost. D G Cadd9 Carry me south, to the sea Em G Cmaj7 Along with your memories of me D G We are born in the water G /A /B Cadd9 And I will re-turn to Thee. Cadd9(2) e|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----| B|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-| G|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---| D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------| A|--3-------3-------|--3-------3-------|--3-------3-------|--3-------3-------| E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----| G5/D e|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----| B|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-| G|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---| D|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|---0------0-------| A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------| E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----| G/D e|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----| B|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-| G|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---| D|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|--0-------0-------| A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------| E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----| Cadd9 Colored lights G5/D And birthday cakes Cadd9 Candle wax G/D On paper plates. Cadd9 Breathe the water G/D Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye. Cadd9 You can see through water G/D (only 2 measures) All the way up to the sky. Verse 3: G Gods of water, gods of rain D Cover up the sun again Em C We are crossing it at the Mississippi line C /B /A G And I tried all my days D C To love you just the way you hoped I might, C /B /A G But I’m leaving here to-night. D I can’t remember yesterday C C /B /A G I tried, if I said I could G I lied. Outro: Em C Cadd9 Chords: Verse/Chorus C X32010 G 320003 D XX0232 Em 022000 Am X02210 A X02220 Bridge Bm7 X24232 (Gmaj7/B) X2403X Cmaj7 X32000 Cadd9 X32030 Cadd9(2) X32033 G5/D XX0033 G/D XX0087
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