A Long December

	Bb	F	C	Gm
	A long De	cember and there's	reason to bel	ieve

	Bb	F	Bb
Maybe	this year will be	better than the	last

	Gm	Bb	F	C
I	can't re	member the	last thing that you	said

	Gm
as you were	leavin'

	F	Bb
Now the	days go by so	fast

	F	Bb	Gm
And it's	one more day up	in the cany	ons

	F	Bb	Gm
And it's	one more night in	Hollywood

	F	Bb	Gm	-stop-
And if you	think that I could	be forgiven		...I wish you would

	F	Bb	Gm	Bb
	nana	nana na	nana	nananana..

The smell of hospitals in winter

And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls

All at once you look across a crowded room

To see the way that light attaches to a girl

And it's one more day up in the conyons

And it's one more night in Hollywood

If you think you might come to California...I think you should

Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.

And talked a little while about the year

I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower

Makes you talk a little lower about

the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe

Maybe this year will be better than the last

I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself

To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it's been one more day up in the canyon

And it's one more night in Hollywood

It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should

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Tabbed by Stefan and Dennis Nijenhuis

s.nijenhuis@pi.net

"A Long December" By The Counting Crows

From "Recovering The Satelites"

Tabbed By Snap

Verse Riff(rhythmn)

e-----1-----3-----1-----3-----1-----3--1-------------------


B--3--1--5--3--5--1--5--3--3--1--5--3--1--5----------------


G--3--2--5--3--5--2--5--3--3--2--5--3--2--5----------------


D--3--3--5--5--5--3--5--5--3--3--5--5--3--5----------------


A--1--3--3--5--3--3--3--5--1--3--3--5--3--3----------------


E-----1-----3-----1-----3-----1-----3--1-------------------

Verse Riff(lead):

*the lead part is the same as the rhythmn, except after the 7th chord

he play's this:

2nd time adds this

e----------------  ----------------


B----------------  ----------------


G----------3-----  ---5/7/5--------


D----------3-----  ---0------------


A---3---5--------  ---3/5/3--------


E----------------  ----------------

Chorus riff(rhythmn)

e--1-----3---------


B--1--5--3--5------


G--2--5--3--5------


D--3--5--5--5------


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


E--1-----3---------

Chorus(Lead part)

(I wish u would....)

e-3--------5----- -------1-------1----


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


G-----3--5------- --2--3----2--3------


D---------------- --------------------


A---------------- --------------------


E---------------- --------------------

Guitar solo

e-----------------------------------------------------------


B-----------------------------------------------------------


G-----------------------------------------------------------


D--5h7-7-5-7-7-7-5-7-5h7-7-5h7-7-5h7-8-8-8-8-7-5--5-7-7-5-7-


A------------------------------------------------8----------


E-----------------------------------------------------------


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-5-7-7-7-5-7-5---------------


---------------8-10-8--------


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After that there is a verse and the guitars drop out and there is just

bass and piano and other stuff in there as well. but when they come

back in Dan Vickery, the lead guitarist, does this:

e----------------------------------------


B----------------------------------------


G----------------------------------------


D-------3--------------------------------


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


E---------3--5--6------------------------

The rest of the song is the same as before its a cool song and its fun

to play, at least i think so.