Another Horsedreamer’s Blues Counting Crows
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:58:53 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur"
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Another Horsedreamer's Blues"
Tab: "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)
Intro:
Wurlitzer arranged for guitar: (Play this three times)
|-------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------10---------| |--10--9--------9------------10------10--9--| |--0---0-----0-----10-----0--------------0--| |-------------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------------| |------------------------------------------------| |---------------------8-----6--6--6-----8--8--8--| |--------10--9-----9--------7--7--7-----9--9--9--| |-----0--0------0--------0-----------0-----------| |--0---------------------------------------------| |------------------------------------------------|
Guitar 1, enters after first repeat of the wurlitzer, played twice:
|-----------5-----------------------------| |--------------6--------------------------| |--7-----7--------7-----7-----7--------7--| |-----0--------------------0-----7--------| |-----------------------------------5-----| |-----------------------------------------| |-----------5--------------------8--------| |--------------6--------------------8-----| |--7-----7--------7-----7-----7--------9--| |-----0--------------------0--------------| |-----------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------|
Guitar 2, entering at the same time, played w/ slide
|----------|--5----------|------15~~~--15--|------15~~~--| |--5/10\/--|-----5/10\/--|--15-------------|--15---------| |----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------| |----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------| |----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------| |----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
Verse: (chords played by wurlitzer and bass)
[Dm]Margery's [C]dreaming of the [Dm]middle of the [C]day
[Dm]Tiyuri to [C]win
Perfect [Bb]Dozen to [C]place
Fill 1 Fill 2
|------15~~~-----|-|------------------------------| |--15------------|-|------------------------------| |----------------|-|------------------------------| guitar 1 plays |----------------|-|--------8-------------10------| these where |----------------|-|--8/10-----10--10/12------12--| marked |----------------|-|------------------------------|
* (w/ fill 1)
money is the matter that's been on her mind
* (w/ fill 2)
time ticks by her one race at a a time
Chorus: Guitar 1 plays chords, guitar 2 plays the part below:
[Bb] [C] [F] [Dm] [Bb] [C]
|--6--3-----0--------|--1--------------|--------1--0--------| |--------3-----1-----|-----3-----------|-----3--------1-----| |-----------------0--|--------2-----2--|--3--------------0--| |--------------------|-----------3-----|--------------------| |--------------------|-----------------|--------------------| |--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
[Bb]
|------6-----8--------|--10--------8--------| |---------6-----6-----|------6--------6-----| |--/7--------------7--|---------7--------7--| |---------------------|---------------------| |---------------------|---------------------| |---------------------|---------------------|
[Bb]She's tryin' to be a [C]good girl
And [F]give 'em what they [Dm]want
[Bb]But Margery's [C]dreaming of [Bb]horses
Lookin' at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
* (w/ fill 3)
She's tired and lonely
Scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next
|----------|--5----------6--------8---------| |--5/10\/--|-----5/10\/-----8--------10-----| |----------|-------------------7---------9--| Fill 3, |----------|--------------------------------| guitar 2 (w slide) |----------|--------------------------------| |----------|--------------------------------|
She's tryin' to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of horses
Bridge:
[Am] [Bb] [Am] [Gm] [Am] [Am]
|--5--|-----------0--------|-----------0--------|--5--| |--5--|-----------1--------|-----------1--------|--5--| |--5--|--------3--2--------|-----------2--------|--5--| Gtr 1 |--7--|-----3-----2--------|--------5--2--------|--7--| |--0--|--1-----------------|-----5--------------|--0--| |-----|--------------------|--3-----------------|-----|
| | | | |
| | | | |
|--5--|--6--6-----5--5-----|--6--6-----5--5-----|--5--| |--5--|--3--3-----5--5-----|--8--8-----5--5-----|--5--| |--5--|--3--3-----5--5-----|--7--7-----5--5-----|--5--| Gtr 2 |--7--|--------------------|--------------------|--7--| w/ wah |--0--|--------------------|--------------------|--0--| |-----|--------------------|--------------------|-----|
[Am]Margie doesn't say anything all the way home[Bb] [Am] [Gm] [Am]
[Am]So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone
[Gm] [Am] [Bb] [C]
|--------------------|--------------------| |-----------------1--|--------3--------1--| |--------3-----2-----|-----3--------2-----| Both guitars repeat |-----5--------------|--------------------| this, and continue |-----------0--------|--1--------3--------| over organ solo |--3-----------------|--------------------|
Organ solo over Gm Am Bb C
Re-intro: The wurlitzer plays this, with slight variation, 8 times:
|----------------| |----------------| |-----10--10--9--| Wurlitzer figure 1 |--0--0---0---0--| |----------------| |----------------| |--------5-----------| |-----6-----6--------| |--7-----------7-----| Guitar 1 plays this 4 times, starting on |-----------------0--| the fifth repeat in the wurlitzer part |--------------------| |--------------------| |-----10--|----13--|----15--| |----x----|---x----|---x----| |---x-----|--x-----|--x-----| Guitar 2 plays this, with a lot of |--x------|--------|--------| distortion and wah, starting on the |---------|--------|--------| fifth repeat in the wurlitzer part |---------|--------|--------|
Verse:
Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and
TV dinners and letters she won't send, and
* (w/ fill 1)
Every race night is shot through with sunlight
* (w/ fill 4)
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for...
|---------|--8--------8/10--| |-----10--|-----8-----------| |/10------|--------9--------| Fill 4, played by guitar 2 |---------|-----------------| |---------|-----------------| |---------|-----------------|
[Bb]Drunken [C]fathers and [Bb]stupid [C]mothers and
[Bb]Boys who [C]can't tell one [Gm]girl from [Am]another
[Bb] [C] [Gm] [Am]
||---6--6-----8--8---||--3--3-----5--5----|-------| ||---3--3-----5--5---||--3--3-----5--5----|-------| ||*--3--3-----5--5--*||--3--3-----5--5----|-------| Guitar 1 ||*-----------------*||-------------------|-------| ||-------------------||-------------------|-------| ||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
|| || | |
||------------5~~~---||-----5-----8--5--8/|10~~~--| ||------------5~~~---||-/6-----6----------|-------| ||*-----------5~~~--*||-------------------|-------| Guitar 2 w/ slide ||*-----------5~~~--*||-------------------|-------| ||-------------------||-------------------|-------| ||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This measure repeated 3 times
(with Wurlitzer figure 1, 4 times)
So she takes her pills
Careful and round
* (w/ fill 3, second measure only)
One of these days she's gonna
throw the whole bottle down
But she's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of...
Trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of horses
Wurlitzer and Guitar 1 play the intro again
|-----10~~--| |----x------| |---x-------| Guitar 2 plays this, and then is tacet |--x--------| |-----------| |-----------|
Finish with another organ solo, with both guitars playing the same
Gm Am Bb C progression they did the first time
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