This song reminds me of their cover of "Girl From The North Country" and Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe". It is destined to be one of the Crows' best, though I say that every time they release anything. Dan fingerpicks this song. I have tabbed 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 nice 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. You can barre the first two forms but make sure not to hit that D string. Sorry if it is confusing, but I promise I could have made it much worse. 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:

^GClose the door on a short night ^DLift the lid on the daylight ^Em6:09 West Tennessee^C time C /B /A G And I buy all my days ^GAt the ^Dsame place where the girl sells her ^Cnights C /B /A G To a God of ocean tides.

Chorus:

^DAll ^Gnight ^Dlong, ^GWriting ^Cpoems to Cali^Gfornia ^EmMelodies of failure And the ^Ampeople I have thrown A - ^Dway, ^Gmean^Dwhile, ^Gsomewhere ^Cwest of Caro^Glina In a ^Emcongregation of strangers We are ^A7digging holes to China Then we ^Cpray to our reflections In the ^Cwater when it rises.

Verse 2:

I said ^Gheadlights pin the highway down ^DJesus spins the world around And Iâ^Emll spend all my tomorrows co^Cming down C /B /A G Goodbye all my days. I know I ^Dsaid I never loved you But I ^Cmight just ^Ctry a

gain to

night. ^G

Bridge:

^Bm7(Gmaj7/B)Truck stops and ^Criver gods Gas ^Dstations of the ^GCross ^DFollowing a ghost, ^AmFollowing a ghost, I ^Cpray the water ^Dwash away The ^Emmemories a^Dnd the c^Cmaj7ost. ^DCarry me so^Guth, to the ^Cadd9sea ^EmAlong with your ^Gmemories of ^Cmaj7me We are ^Dborn in the ^Gwater G /A /B Cadd9 And I will re-turn to Thee.

Csus2 e|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----| B|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-| G|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------| D|------5-------5---|------5-------5---|------5-------5---|------5-------5---| 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|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------| D|------5-------5---|------5-------5---|------5-------5---|------5-------5---| A|--5-------5-------|--5-------5-------|--5-------5-------|--5-------5-------| E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----| G e|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----| B|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-| G|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------| D|------9-------9---|------9-------9---|------9-------9---|------9-------9---| A|--10-----10-------|--10------10------|--10-----10-------|--10------10------| E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----|

^Csus2Colored lights And ^G5/Dbirthday cakes ^Csus2Candle wax On ^Gpaper plates. ^Csus2Breathe the water ^GHush-a-bye, hush-a-bye. You can ^Csus2see through water G(2) (only 1 measure) All the way up to the sky.

Verse 3:

^GGods of water, gods of rain ^DCover up the sun again We are ^Emcrossing at the Mississippi^C line C /B /A G And I tried all my days ^DTo love you just the way you hoped I ^Cmight, C /B /A G But Iâm leaving here to-night. I ^Dcanât remember yesterday I ^Ctried, if I ^Csaid I

coul

d ^G ^GI lied.

Outro: Em7 Em7(2) Cadd9 (End riff) Chords: Verse/Chorus C X32010 G 320033 D XX0232 Em 022000 Am X02210 A7 X02020 Bridge Bm7 X24232 (Gmaj7/B) X2403X Cmaj7 X32000 Cadd9 X32030 Csus2 X35X33 G5/D X55X33 G(2) X(10)9X87 Outro Em7 020000 Em7(2) 020003

Counting Crows - God of ocean tides