Counting Crows – Cover Up The Sun (Guitar)

C                       Em
Colorado passes by like writing on a wall

F                             C
Headed eastward down to New Orleans

C                         Em
Dippin' into Texas as the stars are fading out

        F                           G
There's still a lot of country in between

     Am                      F        C
When I left California I was 29 years old

        F     C    Dm   C  G
And the world just spun me around

      C                         F                C
Now I watched Louisiana scroll across the window pane

      Dm                         F
And I face in the direction I am bound

Dm C   G  C   F
Co-ver up the sun

Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river run

Dm   C    G C   F
Make that water come 

         C
Wash me away

    C                                 Em
Me, Clifton, and the king of cats, we sat down in the road

F                                   C
Pedro said, "Boys, we're three of a kind,"

   C                               Em
He said "I sat with river rats and hung my hat with diplomats

F                             G
Had four brothers once upon a time"

    Am                               F                C
He said they toured the country far away from the Rio Grande

        F    C    Dm   C    G
And the road just wore them down

        C                                F             C
So they bought a house beside a lake, outside of New Orleans

      Dm                                 F         G
And they stared in the direction of the escalating sound

Dm C   G  C   F
Cover up the sun

Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river run

Dm   C    G    C      F
Take this good man's son

              C
And wash him away

     C                         Em
Well Sister Indecipherable is talkin to a wall

F                              C
Back in New York city, she's a queen (New York she's a queen)

      C                           Em
Well, resurrect or genuflect, she saves the one she can't protect

F                                 G
Keeps the chapel Pris- if not Sis-tine

           Am                              F              C
She drinks Absinthe mixed with Kerosene to keep herself upright

        F     C     Dm     C   G
But the world still brings her down

             C                            F              C
If you can't keep your shit together when God is on your side

     Dm                                F
What chance do you have when he's not around?

Dm C   G  C   F
Cover up the sun

Dm   C    G C   F
Make that water run

Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river come

            C
To wash me away

C                         Em
People of the Mardi Gras, in their Tuesday best

F                              C
Waiting for the South to rise again

C                    Em
Children of Geronimo grieving for the West

F                                     G
Feather-dressed and marching their refrain

   Am                                F                C
Oh in the dark of Armstrong Park the marching bands attend

         F  C  Dm   C G
But they never make a sound

       C                                F            C
Just a quiet prayer for Congo Square, a silent conversation there

         Dm                                Bb                           G
With the night to rest our eyes in we just look to the horizon for the change

Dm C  G  C   F
Cover up the sun

Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river run

  Dm   C   G C    F                C
I pray the waters come to wash me away

Dm C   G  C   F
Colour in the sky

Dm   C    G  C   F
Make that diesel fly

         Dm  C  G    C  F                    C
Oh, just lay me down to die and just take me away.