Counting Crows – A Long December (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

-------------------Author's Note------------------ Intro: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
D   G   Em  G   D   G   Em
On the second G, he plays G Em G as eighth notes.
Chorus "-stop-" goes 2 quarter notes and then two quick staccato eighth notes. -------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | D G | Em G | D G | Em | [Verse]
G             D                  A           Em
A long December and there's reason to believe

      G                D               G
Maybe this year will be better than the last

Em               G      D                        A
   I can't remember the last thing that you said

            Em
as you were leavin'

        D             G
Now the days go by so fast
[Chorus]
         D               G         Em    
And it's one more day up in the canyons

         D                 G       Em
And it's one more night in Hollywood

       D                  G        Em -stop-           D
If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would

  G   Em  G  D   G   Em   Em
nanananananananana.. yeah
[Verse]
G                 D            A
The smell of hospitals in winter

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

Em        G              D               A
   All at once you look across a crowded room

           Em              D            G
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
[Chorus]
         D               G         Em    
And it's one more day up in the canyons

         D               G         Em
And it's one more night in Hollywood

             D                 G      Em -stop-         D
If you think you might come to California...I think you should

  G   Em  G   D   G   Em
nanananananananana.. yeah
[Break] | D G | Em G | D G | Em | [Verse]
G               D              A              Em
Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.

    G               D               G
And talked a little while about the year

Em          G                D              A
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower

          Em            D
Makes you talk a little lower about

    G
the things you could not show her
[Chorus]
                G      D                  A            Em
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe

      G                 D               G
Maybe this year will be better than the last

Em        G                D                A
  I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself

Em                  D               G
To hold on to these moments as they pass
[Outro]
         D               G         Em    
And it's one more day up in the canyon

         D               G         Em
And it's one more night in Hollywood

         D                  G        Em -stop-           D
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should

  G   Em  G   D   G   Em   Em  D
nanananananananana.... yeah

  G   Em  G   D   G   Em   Em
nanananananananana.... yeah