Tablature mercury - Counting Crows

          



 

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  Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:00:10 -0800

  From: "Michael A. Mazur" <mmazur@WPI.EDU>

  Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Mercury"

  

  Tab: "Mercury" Counting Crows

  Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

  

  Guitar 1 is an acoustic, tuned to open Eb (Eb Bb Eb G Bb Eb)

  Guitar 2 is a mandolin, tuned down 1/2 step (Gb Db Ab Eb)

  

  Note: Watch the time signature here. The main riff is in 14/8, which

  I think of as a measure of 6 followed by a measure of 8 (as

  I indicate below). But, the rest of the song is in 8/8, and the

  shifts from 14/8 to 8/8 and back again are subtle.

  

  Intro and main riff: 

  

  |  |-----0-----------|----0--------------|

  |  |--------0--2/32-|-------0-----0-----|

  |14|-----------2/32-|-0--------------0--| Guitar 1 (all of guitar 1

  | 8|-----------2/32-|-0-----------------| is played with a slide)

  |  |-----------2/32-|-0-----------------|

  |  |--0--------------|-0--------0--------|

      (6/8)             (8/8)

  

  Verse: (guitar 1 plays main riff over Eb)

  | |/5--------5--------|

  | |/5--5-----5--------|

  |8|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1 plays this for the Ab chord

  |8|/5--------5-----5--| (note the change to 8/8)

  | |/5--------5--------|

  | |/5--------5--------|

  

  

  Eb

  She is trapped inside a month of grey

  And they take a little every day

           Ab

  She is a victim of her own responses

                                    Eb

  Shackled to a heart that wants to settle

  And the runs away

  

  Chorus:

     Bb                  Ab

  | |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|

  | |/7--7-----7--------|/5--5-----5--------|

  |8|/7-----7--7--7-----|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1

  |8|/7--------7-----7--|/5--------5-----5--| (again in 8/8)

  | |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|

  | |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|

  

         Bb               Ab

  It's a sin to be fading endlessly

                    Eb (guitar 1 plays main riff)

  Yeah, but she's alright with me

  

  She is leaving on a walkaway

  She is leaving me in disarray

  In the absence of a place to be

  She stands there looking back at me

  Hesitates, and then turns away

  She'll change so suddenly

  She's just like mercury

  Yeah, but she's alright with me

  

  Bridge:

  |/12--|

  |/12--|

  |/12--| Guitar 1 plays this at the end of the chorus, and then

  |/12--| plays the main riff over the bridge

  |/12--|

  |/12--|

  

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

  |--7--7--7--7--9--9b(10)r9--9--| Guitar 2 (trem. picked)

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

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

  

  (Guitar 1 plays last 8/14 of main riff once)

  

  Keep some sorrow in your

  hearts and minds

  For the things that die before their time

  For the restlessly abandoned homes

  The tired and weary rambler's bones

  And stay beside me where I lie

  She's entwined in me

  Crazy as can be

  Yeah, but she's alright with me

  

   


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 Mercury, de Counting crows 

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