August and everything after

Counting Crows - August And Everything After (and extras)

Contents:

Round Here (with backing chords)

Omaha (easier capo II version)

Mr. Jones (new corrected version)

Perfect Blue Buildings

Anna Begins (2 versions since I couldn't decide which sounded right)

Time and Time Again (new corrected riff)

Einstein on the Beach - From DGC Rareties v.1

Marjorie - Unreleased Demo

Goodnight, Elizabeth - Unreleased Concert Staple

Missing:

Ghost Train

-- ROUND HERE -- Counting Crows

From: ken@cloudbusting.apple.com (Ken McLeod)

Intro & verse riff

E|-----5--------5------------|

B|-------8--------8------8---|

G|---7--------7--------7-----|

D|---------------------------|

A|---------------------------|

E|---------------------------|

C (riff) D

Step out the front door like a ghost

Em G/D

into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white.

C D

And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view

Em G/D

of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

C D

I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again

Em G/D

Where? I don't know

C D

Maria says she's dying. Through the door, I hear her crying

Em G/D

Why? I don't know

C D Em G/D

Round here we always stand up straight

C D Em G/D

Round here something radiates

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand

She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis

She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land

Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus

She parks her car outside of my house Takes her clothes off,

Says she's close to understanding Jesus

She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood

She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

C D Em G/D

Round here we're carving out our names

C D Em G/D

Round here we all look the same

C D

Round here we talk just like lions

Em G/D

But we sacrifice like lambs

C D Em A D A

Round here she's slipping through my hands / / Oh...

C D Em A D G A

Round here she's slipping through my hands / / Oh...Ô ˆ, p-p-p-°° ÔŒ™ G/A A G/A A

Sleeping children got to run like the wind Out of the lightning dream

G/A A C D

Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning

She says, "It's only in my head."

She says, "Shhh...I know it's only in my head."

But the girl on the car in the parking lot

says: "Man, you should try to take a shot

Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"

Then she looks up at the building she says she's thinking of jumping

She says she's tired of life; she must be tired of something.

C D Em G/D

Round here she's always on my mind

C D Em G/D

Round here I got lots of time

C D

Round here we're never sent to bed early

Em G/D

Nobody makes us wait

C D Em G/D

Round here we stay up very very very very late

C D Em G/D

I can't see nothing, nothing around here

C D

You catch me if I'm falling, you catch me if I'm falling

Em G/D

Will you catch me 'cause I'm falling down round here

G (riff)

I said I'm under the gun round here

I'm innocent, I'm under the gun round here

I can't see nothing, nothing round here.

CHORDS: C x32010 G 320003 D xx0232

Em 022000 G/D 320033 A x02220

OMAHA by Counting Crows

Intro:

Em D Em C

Em Bm

Start tearing the old man down

D A Em

Run past the heather and down to the old road

Bm C

Start turning the grain into the ground

F#m

Roll a new leaf over

Bm D

In the middle of the night there's an old man

A Em

Treading around in the gathered rain

Bm D

Well mister if you want to walk on water

C G

Could you drop a line my way

Chorus:

D Em

Omaha

Somewhere in middle America

G D C

Get right to the heart of matters

G D

It's the heart that matters more

Em A C

I think you'd better turn your ticket in

G D/F# Em Em/D C G/B D/A

And get your money back at the door

Verse 2:

Start threading a needle

Brush past the shuttle that slides through the cold room

Start turning the wool across the wire

Roll the new life over

In the middle of the night there's an old man

Threading his toes through a bucket of rain

Hey mister you don't want to walk on water

You're only going to walk all over me

[Chorus]

[Bridge chords] x 4

Verse 3:

Start running the banner down

Drop past the color come up through the summer rain

Start turning the girl into the ground

Roll a new love over

In the middle of the day there's a young man

Rolling around in the earth and rainÔ ˆ, p-p-p-°° ÔŒHey mister if you're going to walk on water, you know

You're only going to walk all over me

[Chorus] x 2

[Bridge chords] x 2

Intro:

Em D Em C

Em Bm

Start tearing the old man down

D Am Em

Run past the heather and down to the old road

Bm C

Start turning the grain into the ground

Roll a new leaf over

Bm D

In the middle of the night there's an old man

Treading around in the gathered rain

Em Bm E

Hey mister if you want to walk on water

Would you drop a line my way

Chorus:

D Em

Omaha

Somewhere in middle America

G D C

Get right to the heart of matters

G D

It's the heart that matters more

Em A C

I think you'd better turn your ticket in

G C

And leave your money right at the doorÔ ˆ, p-p-p-°° ÔŒ™G C

Verse 2:

Start threading the needle

Brush past the shuttle that slides through the cold room

Start turning the wool across the wire

Roll the new life over

In the middle of the night there's an old man

Threading his toes through a bucket of rain

Hey mister if you want to walk on water

You're only going to walk all over me

[Chorus]

Verse 3:

Start running the banner down

Drop past the color come up through the summer rain

Start turning the girl into the ground

Roll a new life over

In the middle of the night there's a young man

Rolling around in the earth and rain

Hey mister if you're going to walk on water, you know

You're only going to walk all over me

[Chorus]

MR. JONES -- Counting Crows

Transcription by D Morgan <dmorgan@emunix.emich.edu>

Corrections by Eric Simon and

Paul Hutchinson <u9343164@qub.ac.uk> and

Ken McLeod.

Am F Dm G Am F G G

sha la la la la la la uh huh...

Am F Dm G

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl

Am F G

Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer

Am F Dm G

She dances while his father plays guitar. She's suddenly beautiful

Am F G

We all want something beautiful I wish I was beautiful

Am F

So come dance this silence down through the morning

Dm G Am F G *

sha la la la la la la la yeah uh huh...

Am F Dm G

Cut up, Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances

Am F G

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones

Am F Dm G

Believe in me Help me believe in anything

Am F G

(cause) I want to be someone who believes

C F G

Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales

C F

Stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."

C F G

Smiling in the bright lights Coming through in stereo

C F G

When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

Am F Dm G

I will paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray

Am F G

All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful

Am F Dm G *

(you know) Gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yes¬terday

Am F G

If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

C F G

Mr. Jones and me look into the future

C F

Stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."

C F G

Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar

C F G Am

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

I will never be lonely

Am F

I want to be a lion Everybody wants to pass as cats

Am G

We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that.

Am F

Believe in me because I don't believe in anything

Am G

and I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.

C F G

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio

C F

Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

"She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me."

C F

I want to be Bob Dylan

Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

C F G

When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

C F G

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video

C F G

When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.

C F G

We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.

C F G

But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can

be.

C F G

Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.....

CHORDS: C x32010 F x33211 G 320003

Am x02210 Dm x00231

(*) The following fill is used at a couple of points in the song,

marked with an asterisk.

G Am

------------|----------------

----0-1-0---|----------------

----------0-|-2--------------

------------|----------------

PERFECT BLUE BUILDINGS -- Counting Crows

From: ken@cloudbusting.apple.com (Ken McLeod)

INSTRUMENTAL: (each chord is held for a bar)

F C Gm Bb

Intro pattern (repeat 2x)**

E|--------------------1---------| **also play at end of first chorus

B|------------------3---3----3--|

G|---------------2---------2----|

D|--0-(let ring)----------------|

A|------------------------------|

E|------------------------------|

Dm C Bb Am

Just down the street from your hotel, baby

Dm C Bb

I stay at home with my disease

Dm C Bb Am

And ain't this position familiar, darling

Dm C Bb

Well, all monkeys do what they see

Gm Bb

Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

Down on Virginia and La Loma

Where I got friends who'll care for me

You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted

I got an attitude of need

Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

CHORUS:

F C Bb

Asleep in perfect blue buildings

F C Bb

Beside the green apple sea

F C Bb

Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby

F C Bb 1.| Dm** 2.| F

Try to keep myself away from | me | (myself and) me

| |

It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday

It doesn't get much worse than this

In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle

of these lives which are completely meaningless

Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

(CHORUS)

(INSTRUMENTAL)

I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...

There's a skeleton in every man's house

Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody

There's a dead man trying to get out

Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...

(CHORUS) x 3

ANNA BEGINS - COUNTING CROWS

version 1 by Ken McLeod

(verses Am 002210 - G 320003)

My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."

I am not worried, I am not overly concerned

My friend implores me, "For one time only,

make an exception." I am not worried

Wrap her up in a package of lies

Send her off to a coconut island

I am not worried, I am not overly concerned

With the status of my emotions

"Oh," she says, you're changing

But we're always changing

It does not bother me to

(bridge Em 022000 - C 032010 - D x00323)

Say this isn't love

C D Em

Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love

C D

And I guess I'm going to have to live with that

Em C

But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey

Or something in between

Em C D

And I can always change my name if that's what you mean

(Chorus, repeat several times throughout)

E----3--------3-------------3-----------------

B------3--------3-------------3---------3-----

G-----------------------------------------0---

D-------------------------2----------0--------

A-----------3---------------------------------

E--3------------------------------------------

When kindness falls like rain it washes her away

And Anna begins to change her mind

"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days"

And I'm not ready for this sort of thing

(2nd Chorus)

This time when kindness falls like rain

It washes me away

And Anna begins to change my mind

And every time she sneezes I believe it's love

and Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing

(Chorus at end)

She's talking in her sleep

It's keeping me awake And Anna begins to toss and turn

And every word is nonsense but I understand and

Oh lord I'm not ready for this sort of thing

Her kindness bangs a gong

It's moving me along

And Anna begins to fade away

It's chasing me away it disappears and

Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing

[2nd verse]

My friend assures me "It's all or nothing"

But I am not really worried I am not overly concerned

You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself to make yourself

forget, to make yourself forget, I am not worried

"If it's love," she said, "then we're gonna have to think about the

consequences."

She can't stop shaking

I can't stop touching her and.... [to 2nd chorus]

ANNA BEGINS - COUNTING CROWS

version 2 by Paul Hutchison

(verses Ams2 x02200 - G 320003)

Ams2

My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."

I am not worried, I am not overly concerned

Ams2

My friend implores me, "For one time only,

make an exception." I am not worried

Wrap her up in a package of lies

Send her off to a coconut island

I am not worried, I am not overly concerned

With the status of my emotions

"Oh," she says, you're changing

But we're always changing

It does not bother me to

(bridge Em 022000 - Cmaj7 x32000 - D13 x54000)

Say this isn't love

Cmaj7 D13 Em

Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love

Cmaj7 D13

And I guess I'm going to have to live with that

Em Cmaj7

But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey

D13

Or something in between

Em Cmaj7 D13

And I can always change my name if that's what you mean

[2nd verse]

My friend assures me "It's all or nothing"

But I am not really worried I am not overly concerned

You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself

To make yourself forget, I am not worried

[Bridge]

"If it's love," she said, "then we're gonna have to think about the

consequences."

She can't stop shaking, I can't stop touching her and..

(Chorus G 320033 - Csus2 x32033 - Am7s4 x02233 - D xx0232 - Em7 xx2033)

G Csus2 Am7s4 D G

This time when kindness falls like rain it washes her away

Csus2 Em7 Dsus4 G

And Anna begins to change her mind

Csus2 Am7s4 Dsus4 G Csus2

"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days"

Em7 Dsus4

And I'm not ready for this sort of thing

[3rd verse]

But I'm not gonna break

And I'm not going to worry about it anymore

I'm not going to bend, and I'm not going to break and I'm not going to worry about it anymore

It seems like I should say, 'As long as this is love...'

But it's not all that easy so maybe I should

Snap her up in a butterfly net

Pin her down in a photograph album

I am not worried - I've done this sort of thing before

[Bridge]

But then I start to think about the consequences

Because I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and..

[Chorus]

This time when kindness falls like rain it washes me away

And Anna begins to change my mind

And every time she sneezes I believe it's love

and Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing

She's talking in her sleep

It's keeping me awake

And Anna begins to toss and turn

And every word is nonsense but I understand and

Oh lord I'm not ready for this sort of thing

Her kindness bangs a gong

It's moving me along

And Anna begins to fade away

It's chasing me away it disappears and

Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing

--------------------------------------------------------------------

TAB:-

Verse Figure:

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

B----0--------0---|----0--------0---|----0--------0---|----0--------0---|

G-------2-------2-|-------2-------2-|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|

D-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

A-0---------0-----|-0---------0-----|-----------------|-----------------|

E-----------------|-----------------|-3---------3-----|-3---------3-----|

This appears in the second verse - the first half of the first verse has

no guitar (the bass carries the accompaniment) and for the second half of

it, the guitar plays only the first 2 notes over the Ams2 chords. Repeat

throughout.

Bridge:

+ + + + + + + +

E-----------------|----0-------0----|

B----0------------|----0-------0----|

G-----------------|-------0-------0-|

D-2-----2---------|-2-------4-------|

A-----------------|-3-------5-------|

E-0---------------|-----------------|

Repeat throughout.

Chorus:

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

E----3-------3----|----3------------|----3-------3----|----3------------|

B-------3-------3-|-------3----3----|-------3-------3-|-------3----3----|

G-----------------|---------------0-|-----------------|---------------0-|Ô ˆ, p-p-p-°° ÔŒD-----------------|---------0-------|-----------------|-2-------0-------|

A---------3-------|-0---------------|---------3-------|-----------------|

E-3---------------|-----------------|-3---------------|-----------------|

TIME AND TIME AGAIN -- Counting Crows

from Paul Hutchison

Intro & verse pattern:

F/C + + + C + + +

E---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

B---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

G---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

D---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

A-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-3-|-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-3-|

E-3h5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----|-3-------3-----3-----3-----3-----|

NB You should play the tab rather than chords over the verse, but if

you do play chords, use these - F/C x33210 C x32010

F/C C F/C C

I wanted so badly Somebody other than me

F/C C F/C C

Staring back at me But you were gone, gone, gone

F/C C

I wanted to see you walking backwards

F/C C

And get the sensation of you coming home

F/C C

I wanted to see you walking away from me

F/C C

Without the sensation of you leaving me alone

CHORUS:

Dm C Dm C

Time and time again Time and time again

Dm C F

Time and time again I can't please myself

Intro pattern x 2

F/C C

I wanted the ocean to cover over me

F/C C

I wanna sink slowly without getting wet

F/C C

Maybe someday, I won't be so lonely

F/C C

And I'll walk on water every chance I get

(CHORUS)

Gm Bb F

So when are you coming home Sweet angel?

Gm F Bb F C/E Dm

You leaving me alone? / All alone?

Gm C Bb F/C

Well if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own

Intro pattern x 2

F/C C

I wish I was traveling on a freeway

F/C C

Beneath this graveyard western sky

F/C C

I'm gonna set fire to this city

F/C C

And out into the desert we're gonna ride

(CHORUS)

(SOLO) - Same chords as chorus.

(CHORUS)

-------------------------------------------

There is a second guitar in the song which plays fills and the solo

at the end. During verse 1, from the first 'I wanted to see' onwards,

it plays the following over the F/C chords

+ + + +

E-----------------|

B---1-------------|

G--2--------------|

D-----------------|

A-----------------|

E-----------------|

During the choruses it connects the Dm and C chords with

+ C +

E--1p0-----|------------

B------3---|---------1--

G----------|-0----------

D----------|------------

A----------|------------

E----------|------------

Over the bridges before the 2nd and third verse, and during the third

verse and the second half of the second, it plays the following,

repeating throughout.

+ + + + + + + +

E-----------------|-----------------|

B---1-------------|---1-------------|

G--2--------------|--0--------------|

D-----------------|-----------------|

A-----------------|-----------------|

E-----------------|-----------------|

SOLO:

+ + + + + + + +

E-------------------------|---------------------------|

B-------------------------|---------------------------|

G-12b(14)r(12)------9-10--|-9-10----------(9)--9-10p9-|

D-----------------12----12|-----12-------------10-----|

A-------------------------|---------------------------|

E-------------------------|---------------------------|

+ + + + + + + +

E----------------------------|----10--------------10--------10------|

B----------------------------|--------10------13b(15)r13p10-13p10---|

G-10----------10--10---------|--------------------------------------|

D-10----------10--10h12------|-12-----------------------------------|

A---12----------10-----------|--------------------------------------|

E----------------------------|--------------------------------------|

+ + + + + + + +

E--/10-10----10-12---/10-10----10-12---|----------------------------|

B--/10-10-10---------/10-10-10---------|-----13-13----15---13h15----|

G--------------------------------------|---/14------14---14-----14--|

D--------------------------------------|----------------------------|

A--------------------------------------|----------------------------|

E--------------------------------------|----------------------------|

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Rain King

by the Counting Crows

Note: the timing of the words to the chord changes is

approximate, because the singer uses very elastic phrasing.

This is how I do it.

[verse]

D A

When I think of heaven

Bm A D

Deliver me in a black-winged bird

A Bm A D A

I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers

Bm A D A

And all other instruments of faith and sex and God

Bm A

In the belly of a black-winged bird.

Bm G

Don't try to feed me

Bm G

I've been here before

D E

And I deserve a little more

[chorus]

A Bm D E A

I belong in the service of the Queen

A Bm D E A

I belong anywhere but in between

A Bm D E

She's been crying and I've been thinking

A Bm D E

And I am the Rain King

[verse]

E D A Bm A

And I said mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone?

D A

I can't go outside

Bm A

I'm scared I might not make it home

D A

I'm alive, I'm alive

Bm A

But I'm sinking in

D A

If there's anyone at home at your place, darling

Bm A

Why don't you invite me in?

Bm G

Don't try to bleed me

Bm G

I've been there before

D E

And I deserve a little more

[chorus]

A Bm D E A

I belong in the service of the Queen

A Bm D E A

I belong anywhere but in between

A Bm D E

She's been lying and I've been sinking

A Bm D E

And I am the Rain King

[bridge]

Bm D A

Hey, I only want the same as anyone

Bm D A Bm

Henderson is waiting for the sun

D A

Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends

Bm D A

After all the dreaming I come home again

repeat D A Bm A 2x here

[verse]

D A

When I think of heaven

Bm A D

Deliver me in a black-winged bird

A Bm

I think of dying

A D A

Lay me down in a field of flame and heather

Bm A D A

Render up my body into the burning heart of God

Bm A

In the belly of a black-winged bird

Bm G

Don't try to bleed me

Bm G

I've been here before

D E

And I deserve a little more

[chorus]

A Bm D E A

I belong in the service of the queen

A Bm D E A

I belong anywhere but in between

A Bm D E

She's been dying and I've been drinking

A Bm D E

And I am the Rain King

Sullivan Street - Counting Crows

================================

Intro: D Gmaj7 x 4

D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7

Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street

D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7

Cross the water and home through the town

D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7

Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet

D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7

Pretty soon I won't come around

Chorus:

G A Em

I'm almost drowning in her sea

G D

She's nearly fallen to her knees

Gmaj7 D Gmaj7

Take the way home ba, ba, ba, ba

Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street

Where all the bodies hang in the air

If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet

Either way now, I don't really care, cause I'm gone from there

[Chorus]

Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street

I'm just another rider burned to the ground, come tumbling down

Chorus:

G A Em

I'm almost drowning in her sea

A Em

She's nearly crawling on her knees

G D Gmaj7

It's almost everything I need

D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7 D

I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees

Gmaj7 D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7

I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees

Down on my knees

[Ken sent me an article that was posted a while back: - sv]

Just to expand a little further, while playing the 'D' chord during the

verses, it sounds like he may be occasionally pulling off the 1st string

(2nd fret), then hammering on again for the next strum.

Here's an attempt to tab the the way I'm currently playing it, with bass

notes added for the piano chord part (sounds ok to my ears, although I

haven't worked it out to see if it's correct.) Your mileage may vary.

Feel free to jump in and correct me, show me a different way, etc.

pluck bass notes together

/ = strum top three strings, alternating up & down strums

D D4

V / / / / / / / V V / / / / / / / V V

E|----|-2-0h2--2-2-2-2------|-2-0h2--2-2-2-2------|

B|----|-3-3-3--3-3-3-3------|-3-3-3--3-3-3-3------|

G|--2-|-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--2-0-|-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-2-|

D|--0-|-----------------0---|-------------------0-|

A|----|-------------------2-|-----------------2---|

E|----|---------------------|---------------------|

Take the way home that leads back

to Sullivan Street ...

In the change from D to D4, your index finger moves from the G string

down to the A string, then back. Of course, this whole sequence isn't

strictly repeated over and over... sometimes there are the little

piano runs in between, and so on.

This sounds to me more like the following:

G A Em

I'm almost drowning in her sea

Em G D D4

She's almost fallen to her knees

RAINING IN BALTIMORE -- Counting Crows

From: ken@cloudbusting.apple.com (Ken McLeod)

Corrections: u9343164@qub.ac.uk (Paul Hutchinson)

Dm Bb C F

This circus is falling down on its knees

Dm Bb C

The big top is crumbling down

Dm Bb C F

It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east

Dm Bb C

Where you should be, no one's around

Bb F

I need a phone call

Bb F

I need a raincoat

Bb F

I need a big love

Bb F

I need a phone call

These train conversations are passing me by

And I don't have nothing to say

You get what you pay for

But I just had no intention of living this way

I need a phone call

I need a plane ride

I need a sunburn

I need a raincoat

C Bb

And I get no answers

C Bb

And I don't get no change

C Bb F

It's raining in Baltimore, baby

Bb F C

But everything else is the same

There's things I remember and things I forget

I miss you, I guess that I should

Three thousand five hundred miles away

But what would you change if you could?

I need a phone call; Maybe I should buy a new car;

I can always hear a freight train; If I listen real hard

And I wish it was a small world

Because I'm lonely for the big towns

I'd like to hear a little guitar

I think it's time to put the top down

I need a phone call

I need a raincoat

I really need a raincoat

I really, really need a raincoat

I really, really, really need a raincoat

I really need a raincoat

Murder of One - Counting Crows

transcribed by Steve Vetter [vetters@vax1.elon.edu]

corrected by Paul Hutchinson [u9343164@qub.ac.uk]

lyrics from cs.uwp.edu

This is played in D with a capo at the 4th fret. The As can be exchanged

for Asus2s whenever you feel like it.

D xx0232

Dsus2 xx0230

G 3x0033

Gmaj7 3x0032

A x02220

Asus2 x02200

Intro: |D |Dsus2 |G | Gmaj7| x2

Blue morning Blue morning

Wrapped in strands of fist and bone

Curiosity, Kitten,

Doesn't have to mean you're on your own

You can look outside your window

He doesn't have to know

We can talk awhile, baby

We can take it nice and slow

D Dsus2 G Gmaj7

All your life is such a shame, shame, shame

D Dsus2 G Gmaj7

All your love is just a dream, dream, dream

Are you happy when you're sleeping?

Does he keep you safe and warm?

Does he tell you when you're sorry?

Does he tell you when you're wrong?

I've been watching you for hours

It's been years since we were born

We were perfect when we started

I've been wondering where we've gone

All your life is such a shame

All your love is just a dream

I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow

Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there counting crows

A G/B

One for sorrow Two for joy, Three for girls and four for boys

A/C# G/D

Five for silver Six for gold and Seven for a secret never to be told

There's a bird that nests inside you

Sleeping underneath your skin

When you open up your wings to speak

I wish you'd let me in

All your life is such a shame

All your love is just a dream

Open up your eyes

You can see the flames of your wasted life

You should be ashamed

You don't want to waste your life

I walk along these hillsides In the summer 'neath the sunshine

I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me

D G

Change, change, change

NB This figure appears and is played constantly from

'I walk these hillsides' onwards.

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---2-3-----2-3-----2-3---

-2-------2-------2------- etc

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Einstein on the Beach

Counting Crows

from the DGC Rarities Disk, Volume I

From: Mark Bentley <bentley@access.digex.net>

(Intro)

E A E B

(1st Verse)

[Bouncy E A E B]

Albert's always sincere, he's a sensivitive type

His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked

Better think of nothing, all are we anything (???)

Better to be better than to be anything

A E A E B

And Albert's vision is blooming uncontrolled

All his wings are slowly sinking

(Chorus)

C#m B A E

And the world begins to disappear

C#m B A E

The worst things come from inside here

C#m B A E

And all the king's men reappear

F#m A

For an eggman, on and off the wall

Will never be together again

E A E B

(2nd Verse)

Einstein down on the beach staring into the sand

It's everything he believes in has been shattered

What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay

We all get burned as:

(Bridge)

A E A E B

One more sun comes sliding down the sky

One more shadow leans against the wall

(Chorus)

G#m A G#m

Albert's waiting in the sun

Ô ˆ, p-p-p-°° ÔŒ A

On a field (?) American

G#m A B

For the cause of some inflated form of hit and run

(Solo)

(Bridge)

(Chorus)

G#m A G#m

Albert's fallen on the sun

Cracked his head wide open

(Chorus x 2)

(Ad lib outtro)

E A E B etc

No never be together again

No no never never never again, uh huh

What you fear in the night etc..

-------------------

Ô p-p-p-°° ÔMarjorie (Margery) - Counting Crows

Unreleased Demo

transcribed by Steve Vetter [vetters@vax1.elon.edu]

F#m 244222

B? x22442

Intro riff:

-0--0----0--0--------

-0----0--0----0------

-1-------1-----------

-2-------2-----------

-0-------0-----------

In the still water she lies down

Shaking in the press of sunlight

We rolled into Lexington

She shakes off the drop of daylight

Water beading up her chest

Bleeding down between her knees

Rivers in Kentucky flow

Between the bluegrass wavy seas

D E

But oh, Marjorie

D A E

Twists the knife once more inside of me

Breathless with anticipation

Baited breathers set their hooks

Tuck their heads beneath the high grass

And lie and wait beside the brooks

For infants pushing slowly through

Frustration leading back along

The alleys of a childhood

Will not release us willingly

But oh, Marjorie

Sticks the knife in while I heard the sea

[solo]

F#m B? [repeat]

Dust me off and shut me down

And dream of where I haven't been

Close the door inside my heartÔ ˆ,- p-p-p-°° ÔŒStuck in the south Atlantic wind

I have hollow eyes

Haunting only to myself

Even so, I can't stop calling

This great big hollows in my self

I took the train form California

To the far side of the continent

Woke up in Kentucky

Where a wedding was about to end

I looked up at Anna

She turned back to look at me

It's best to kill the ones that matter

Render blind the ones who see

But oh, Marjorie

Takes the blade and walks away from me

Oh, Marjorie

Love like blood is pouring out of me

Oh, Marjorie

My heart won't stop bleeding over me baby

[solo over F#m and B?]

Oh, I can't shut it in

It's got far too many doors to block the wind

Oh, I can't shut it in

It's got far too many doors to block the wind

Ô p-p-p-°° ÔGoodnight, Elizabeth - Counting Crows

Unreleased Concert Staple

A: x02220 -A: 577855

E: 022100 -E: x79997

G: 320003 -G: 355433

D: xx0323- D: x57775

The - chords are barre chords.

Intro.: -A -E -G -D

A E

Wasted in the afternoon

G D

Waiting on a train

A E

I woke up in pieces and Elizabeth

G D

Had disappeared again

I wish you were inside of me

Hope that you're OK

I hope that you're resting quietly

I just wanted to say

Chorus:

Good, Goodnight, Elizabeth

Goodnight Elizabeth, Goodnight

Good, Goodnight, Elizabeth

Goodnight, Elizabeth, Goodnight

We couldn't all be cowboys

So some of us are clowns

Some of us are dancers on the midway

Roam from town to town

Well I hope that everybody

Can find a little flame

I say my prayers and I set myself one fire

And I walk out on the wire, once again

I said

[chorus]

Well I wait for you in Baton Rouge

I miss you down in New Orleans

I wait for you while she slips in something comfortable

And I miss you when I'm slipping in between

If you wrap yourself in daffodils

I will wrap myself in pain

And If you're the Queen of California

Baby, I am the King of the Rain

And I said:

[chorus]