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august album Counting Crows
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#From: Steve Vetter
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#Counting Crows - August And Everything After (and extras)
#18 March 1995
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#I have compiled all of the circulating files from the net into this one
#overview file. If you have anything to add, mail it to me and I'll update
#it. Original credit is left intact, much thanks to Ken McLeod who did
#many of them and Paul Hutchinson for his trained ear and skillfull
#corrections. If I have forgotton to name anyone that credit is due to,
#please flame me. ;-)
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-Steve Vetter [vetters@vax1.elon.edu]
Further Note - Steve's a bit busy at the moment, so I've finished and
tidied up the file myself. If anyone has any further corrections, I'll
accept them if necessary. Full credit to Steve and Ken who did most of
the work on this.
-Paul Hutchinson
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CONTENTS:
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Round Here
Omaha
Mr. Jones
Perfect Blue Buildings
Anna Begins
Time and Time Again
Rain King
Sullivan Street
Ghost Train
Raining In Baltimore
A Murder of One
***
Einstein on the Beach - From DGC Rareties v.1
Marjorie - Unreleased Demo
Goodnight, Elizabeth - Unreleased Concert Staple
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-- ROUND HERE -- Counting Crows
From: ken@cloudbusting.apple.com (Ken McLeod)
(NB During the verses, the guitar plays the riff shown - the chords
marked are implied by the keyboards and bass. However, during the
chorus, the guitar plays the chords as shown.
Note also the funky "Sleeping children.." bit. On the album, there
is definitely a chord change implied from A to G (by the wah-wah
guitar and possibly the keyboards) but the main guitar and bass
play the same thing under both chords, which kind of confuses the
ear. You can approximate what's happening like this
A G/A
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B|-0h2-2-2-----0--2--0--2----|-0---0-0-----0-----0-----0--|
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G|-0h2-2-2-----0--2--0--2----|-0---0-0-----0-----0-----0--|
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D|-0h2-2-2-----0--2--0--2----|-0---0-0-----0-----0-----0--|
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A|-0---0-0-----0--0--0--0----|-0---0-0-----0-----0-----0--|
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E|---------------------------|----------------------------|
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Hope that helps)
Intro & verse riff:
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E|-----5--------5------------|
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B|-------8--------8------8---|
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G|---7--------7--------7-----|
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D|---------------------------|
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A|---------------------------|
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E|---------------------------|
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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...
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
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 x0222x G/A x0000x
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-- OMAHA -- Counting Crows
From: btobin@infinet.com (Bruce S. Tobin),
These chords were figured out by Matt Fleming.
Further corrections by Paul Hutchinson.
This was orginally posted with no capo. I have been informed that the
Crows play it with a capo on 2 and I found that it makes it a lot easier
to play. I have changed the file to be played with a capo on II.
Note the A chord in the verse. At times, if you sing it by yourself, it
will sound like it should be an Am, but I assure you that it should
definitely be an A. If you play it as Asus2, it might make things easier.
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
Em
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
C
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 rain
Hey 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
G
CHORDS: Em 022000 D xx0232 C x32010
Bm x24432 G 320033 D/F# 200232
Em/D xx0000 G/B x20033 D/A x00232
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-- MR. JONES -- Counting Crows
From: dmorgan@emunix.emich.edu (D Morgan)
Corrections by Eric Simon 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
G
"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 yesterday
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
G
"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
Am
I will never be lonely
G
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
G
"She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
C F
I want to be Bob Dylan
G
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
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-- PERFECT BLUE BUILDINGS -- Counting Crows
From: Ken McLeod
(NB You will notice that some lines in some verses have an Am at the end
of them, and others don't. A general guide is, if the words stop on
the Bb chord, then stay on Bb, and don't play Am)
Intro pattern (repeat 2x)**
Dm
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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 Gm
Asleep in perfect blue buildings
F C Gm
Beside the green apple sea
F C Gm 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
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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: (each chord is held for a bar)
F C Gm Bb
F C Gm Bb
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
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-- ANNA BEGINS -- Counting Crows
From: Ken McLeod
Corrections by Paul Hutchinson.
(verses Ams2 x02200 - G 320003)
Ams2
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
G
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
Ams2
My friend implores me, "For one time only,
G
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)
Em
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
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Verse Figure:
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