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#Hard Candy
#Counting Crows
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#Tabbed by nicolas levy(acade365@hotmail.com)
#Standard tuning
#Capo 2
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#All chords(and the riff) relative to capo 2
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#Intro:
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1|------0---------0---------0--------------0|-

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2|--------3---------3---------3-------3-2--3|-

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3|-----------------------------------------2|-

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4|-0---------------------------------------0|-

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5|------------------------------------------|-

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6|-----------3---------2---------0----------|-

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#Verse 1:
On certain Sundays in November when the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of other summers where my shadows used to be
And she is standing by the water as her smile begins to curl
In this or any other summer she is something altogether different
Never just an ordinary girl (riff or D G Bm A)
Verse 2:
And in the evenings on Long Island when the colours start to fade
She wears a silly yellow hat that someone gave her when she stayed
I didn’t think that she returned it we left New York in a whirl
Time expands and then contracts when you are spinning in the grips of
someone who is not an ordinary girl
Chorus 1:
When you sleep you find your mother in the night
But she stays just out of sight
So there isn’t any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning covers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
D F#m A Dsus2 (to riff or D G Bm A)
But it’s just the same hard candy you’re remembering again
Verse 3:
You send your lover off to China then you wait for her to call
You put your girl up on a pedestal then you wait for her to fall
I put my summer’s back in a letter and I hide it from the world
All the regrets you can’t forget are somehow pressed upon a picture
In the face of such an ordinary girl
Chorus 2:
And when you sleep you find your mother in the night
But she stays just out of sight
So there isn’t any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning showers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it’s just the same hard candy you’re remembering again
Again, again, again
It’s just the same hard candy you’re remembering again
Again, again, again
And it’s just the same hard candy you’re remembering again
Outro riff:

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Outro: (with riff)
Go ask her to come around and see me late after dark
Don’t ask me to come around then wait to see if there’s a spark
Go ask her to come around and see me late after dark
Don’t ask me to come around then wait to see if there’s a spark
Go ask her to come around and see me late after dark
Don’t ask me to come around then wait to see if there’s a spark

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#From: Preserved Moose
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#Sullivan Street
#Recorded by Counting Crows
#From the Album “August and Everything After”
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#Figured out by jfafreak@wam.umd.edu
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#These are the two main chords that make up the song
#(actually, the main riff)
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E--2--2--2-------2-------|

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B--3--3--3-------3-------|

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G--2--2--2-------0-------|

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D--0-----0-------0-------|

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A--------0---0---x-------|

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E----------------3-------|

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#Strum those in rhythm, and it should sound right.
#Those are the chords for all of the verse parts.
#For the bridge, just apreggiate them.
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#The verse is just a repetition on those chords for 8 bars I think,
#heres the chorus
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I’m almost drowning in her sea, shes nearly crawlin on her knees
Fpr the last chorus, its
I’m almost drowning in her sea, she’s nearly crawlin on her knees,
It’s almost everything I need
Essentailly for everything not Tabbed out, play the main riff.
Good luck!
John
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 17:19:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Debbie Schueler
Subject: TAB: Sullivan Street by Counting Crows
Sullivan Street by Counting Crows
from August and Everything After
Words: Adam Duritz
Music: Adam Duritz & David Bryson
This is a very simple song to play involving a few easy chords with
alternating bass strings played. The effectiveness comes from the haunting,
soulful vocals.
D/G D chord with a G bass (300032)
Intro: D D/G D D/G D D/G D D/G
Took the way home [D/G]that leads back to Sullivan Street[D/G]
Across the water [D/G]and home through the town[D/G]
Past the shadows [D/G]that fall down wherever we meet[D/G]
Pretty soon now, [D/G]I won’t come around [D/G]//// (strong strum)
I’m almost drowning in her sea
She’s nearly fallen to her knees
Took the way [D/G]home …..(Ba, Ba, Baaaa)[D/G]
Took the way home [D/G]that leads back to Sullivan Street[D/G]
Where all the bodies [D/G] hang on the air[D/G]
If she remembers sh[D/G]e hides it whenever we meet[D/G]
Either way now I[D/G] don’t really care[D/G]
‘Cause I’m gone from there
I’m almost drowning in her sea
G D (arpeggio)
she’s nearly crawling on her knees
[D/G] [D/G] She’s down on her [D/G]knees
She’s down on her [D/G]knees
(strum)
Took the way home[D/G] that leads back to Sullivan Stree[D/G]t
Where I’m just another rider [D/G]burned to the groun[D/G]d
Come tumbling down
I’m almost drowning in his sea
She’s near me, crawling on her knees
It’s almost everything I need.[D/G][D/G]
I’m down on my knees[D/G]
I’m down on my knees[D/G]
I’m down on….
down on my knees.[D/G]
I’m down on my knees.
Arpeggio:
D pluck 4&1 together, then 1,2,3,1,2,3
D/G pluck 6&1 together, same pattern

Capo on 2nd fret.

G 25x
G F C 2x

I can see why you think you belong to me
I never tried to make you think, or let you see one thing for yourself
But now your off with someone else and I’m alone
You see I thought that I might keep you for my own

Amie, what you wanna do?
I think, I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

G F C 2x

Don’t you think the time is right for us to find?
All the things we thought weren’t proper could be right in time,
and can you see?
Which way we should turn together or alone
I can never see what?¢â’¬â’¢s right or what is wrong

(will it take to long to see)

Amie, what you wanna do?
I think, I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

G F C 2x

solo

Well now
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think, I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

G F C 2x

Now it’s come to what you want you’ve had your way
And all the things you thought before just faded into gray
and can you see;
that I don’t know if it’s you or if it’s me?
If it’s one of us I’m sure we’ll both will see

(Won’t you look at me and tell me)

Amie, what you wanna do?
I think, I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer, longer if I do

Yeah now
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think, I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer, if I do

I keep..
Fallin’ in and out of love with you
Fallin’ in and out of love with you
Don’t know what I’m gonna do, I’d keep
Fallin’ in and out of love
With you

Submitted by Bullenhai

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#From: ken@cloudbusting.apple.com (Ken McLeod)
#Subject: CRD/TAB: Perfect Blue Buildings (Counting Crows)
#Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 13:53:23 GMT
#Followup-To: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab
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#– PERFECT BLUE BUILDINGS — Counting Crows
#Intro pattern (repeat 2x)

E|--------------------1---------| also play at end of first chorus
B|------------------3---3----3--|
G|---------------2---------2----|
D|--0-(let ring)----------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|

Just down the street from your hotel, baby
I stay at home with my disease
And ain’t this position familiar, darling
Well, all monkeys do what they see
Help me stay awake, I’m falling…
Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who’ll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need
Help me stay awake, I’m falling…
CHORUS:
Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
F C Bb 1.| Dm 2.| F
Try to keep myself away from | me | (myself and) me
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It’s 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
It doesn’t get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I’m falling…
(CHORUS)
I got bones beneath my skin, and mister…
There’s a skeleton in every man’s house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There’s a dead man trying to get out
Please help me stay awake, I’m falling…
(CHORUS)
[–]Ken McLeod
Apple Computer, Inc.
ken@cloudbusting.apple.com

Thought I might get a rocket ride
When I was a child but it was a lie
That I told myself when I needed something good
At seventeen, had a better dream.
Now I’m thirty-three and it isn’t me
But I’d think of something better if I could

[—]
CHORUS:
All my friends and lovers leave [Dm-C-Am-G]me behind
I’m still looking for a girl
One way or another, I’m just hoping [Dm-C-Am-G]to find
A way...
To put my feet out in the world

[—]
Caught some grief from a falling leaf
As she tumbled down to the dirty ground
Said I should have put her back there if I could
But everyone needs a better day
And I’m trying to find me a better way
To get from the things I do to the things I should

[—]
CHORUS:
All my friends and lovers leave [Dm-C-Am-G]me alone
To try to have a little fun
One way or another I just wish I [Dm-C-Am-G]had known
To go out walking in the sun
And find out if you were the one…
Does it make you wanna come a little closer now?
And did you wanna dance with me?
Did you wanna hum a little harder now?
Can you see her waiting there?
Can you see her? Because I’m almost there
Can you see her waiting there for someone
like me?

[—-]
All you want is a beauty queen
Not a superstar but everybody’s dream machine
All you want is a place to lay your head
You go to sleep dreaming how you would
Be a different kind if you thought you could
But you come awake the way you are instead

[—]
CHORUS:
All my friends and lovers shine lik[Dm-C-Am-G]e the sun
I just turn and walk away
One way or another, I’m not coming u[Dm-C-Am-G]ndone
I’m just waiting for the day