Counting Crows – Hard Candy (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
-
Versions (2)

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Chords

Intro:
e|------0---------0---------0--------------0--|
B|--------3---------3---------3-------3-2--3--|
G|-----------------------------------------2--|
D|-0---------------------------------------0--|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|-----------3---------2---------0------------|
If you prefer, you can leave the 1st string open during all verse chords. Verse 1:
D             G          D/F#               Em               D
   On certain Sundays in November when the weather bothers me

(D)     G                D/F#                Em              D
I empty drawers of other summers where my shadows used to be

(D)        G               D/F#             Em             D
And she is standing by the water as her smile begins to curl

(D)        G           D/F#          Em7
In this or any other summer she is something altogether different

Em7
Never just an ordinary girl  [riff]
Verse 2:
D             G                D/F#                Em               D
   And in the evenings on Long Island when the colours start to fade

(D)         G            D/F#                Em                D
She wears a silly yellow hat that someone gave her when she stayed

(D)      G                D/F#               Em              D
I didn't think that she returned it we left New York in a whirl

(D)        G           D/F#                   Em7 
Time expands and then contracts when you are spinning in the grips of 

        Em7                       G
someone who is not an ordinary girl
Chorus 1:
          A                  D                G
When you sleep you find your mother in the night

        D                 G
But she stays just out of sight

         D         F#m               A
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming

G              A                D               G
 And when you wake the morning covers you with light

        D               G
And it makes you feel alright

         D                  F#m             A           Dsus2 (to riff)
But it's just the same hard candy you're remembering again
Verse 3:
D                 G           D/F#             Em               D
   You send your lover off to China then you wait for her to call 

(D)          G            D/F#               Em                D
You put your girl up on a pedestal then you wait for her to fall 

(D)         G               D/F#           Em                D
I put my summer's back in a letter and I hide it from the world 

(D)        G                  D/F#             Em7
All the regrets you can't forget are somehow pressed upon a picture 

        Em7                      G
In the face of such an ordinary girl 
Chorus 2:
              A                  D                G
And when you sleep you find your mother in the night

        D                 G
But she stays just out of sight

         D         F#m               A
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming

G              A                 D               G
 And when you wake the morning showers you with light

        D               G
And it makes you feel alright

         D                  G             A           D
But it's just the same hard candy you're remembering again

      G      Em7    A
Again, again,  again

     D                   G              A          D
It's just the same hard candy you're remembering again

      G      E    A
Again, again,  again

         D                   G              A         
And it's just the same hard candy you're remembering again

e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------0h2----0---------------|
A|------3--2---3--2--2h3-------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|

Outro riff:
e|-----0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----|
B|-------3-----------3-----------3-----------3---|
G|---------2-----------2-----------2-----------2-|
D|-0---------------------------------------------|
A|-------------4-----------3---------------------|
E|-------------------------------------3---------|
(D) (D/C#) (C) (G) Outro: (with riff)
(D)           (D/C#)             (C)           (G)
   Go ask her    to come around   and see me late after dark

(D)            (D/C#)              (C)            (G)
   Don't ask me    to come around   then wait to see if there's a spark

(D)           (D/C#)            (C)           (G)
   Go ask her    to come around   and see me late after dark

(D)            (D/C#)              (C)            (G)
   Don't ask me    to come around   then wait to see if there's a spark

(D)           (D/C#)            (C)           (G)
   Go ask her    to come around   and see me late after dark

(D)            (D/C#)            (C)            (G)
   Don't ask me    to come around   then wait to see if there's a spark