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/ The Counting Crows / Recovering the Satellites (1996) / Another Horsedreamer's Blues guitar tab

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:58:53 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur"
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Another Horsedreamer's Blues"

Tab: "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

Intro:
Wurlitzer arranged for guitar: (Play this three times)

|-------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------10---------|
|--10--9--------9------------10------10--9--|
|--0---0-----0-----10-----0--------------0--|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|



|------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------8-----6--6--6-----8--8--8--|
|--------10--9-----9--------7--7--7-----9--9--9--|
|-----0--0------0--------0-----------0-----------|
|--0---------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|


Guitar 1, enters after first repeat of the wurlitzer, played twice:
|-----------5-----------------------------|
|--------------6--------------------------|
|--7-----7--------7-----7-----7--------7--|
|-----0--------------------0-----7--------|
|-----------------------------------5-----|
|-----------------------------------------|



|-----------5--------------------8--------|
|--------------6--------------------8-----|
|--7-----7--------7-----7-----7--------9--|
|-----0--------------------0--------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|

Guitar 2, entering at the same time, played w/ slide
|----------|--5----------|------15~~~--15--|------15~~~--|
|--5/10\/--|-----5/10\/--|--15-------------|--15---------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|

Verse: (chords played by wurlitzer and bass)
Dm        C               Dm            C
Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day
Dm        C
Tiyuri to win
        Bb       C
Perfect Dozen to place

Fill 1               Fill 2
|------15~~~-----|-|------------------------------|
|--15------------|-|------------------------------|
|----------------|-|------------------------------| guitar 1 plays
|----------------|-|--------8-------------10------| these where
|----------------|-|--8/10-----10--10/12------12--| marked
|----------------|-|------------------------------|
* (w/ fill 1)
money is the matter that's been on her mind
                      * (w/ fill 2)
time ticks by her one race at a a time

Chorus: Guitar 1 plays chords, guitar 2 plays the part below:
   Bb       C           F        Dm       Bb       C
|--6--3-----0--------|--1--------------|--------1--0--------|
|--------3-----1-----|-----3-----------|-----3--------1-----|
|-----------------0--|--------2-----2--|--3--------------0--|
|--------------------|-----------3-----|--------------------|
|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|


Bb
|------6-----8--------|--10--------8--------|
|---------6-----6-----|------6--------6-----|
|--/7--------------7--|---------7--------7--|
|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|

Bb                   C
She's tryin' to be a good girl
    F                  Dm
And give 'em what they want
Bb            C           Bb
But Margery's dreaming of horses

Lookin' at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
      * (w/ fill 3)
She's tired and lonely
Scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next

|----------|--5----------6--------8---------|
|--5/10\/--|-----5/10\/-----8--------10-----|
|----------|-------------------7---------9--| Fill 3,
|----------|--------------------------------| guitar 2 (w slide)
|----------|--------------------------------|
|----------|--------------------------------|

She's tryin' to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of horses

Bridge:
   Am    Bb       Am          Gm       Am          Am
|--5--|-----------0--------|-----------0--------|--5--|
|--5--|-----------1--------|-----------1--------|--5--|
|--5--|--------3--2--------|-----------2--------|--5--| Gtr 1
|--7--|-----3-----2--------|--------5--2--------|--7--|
|--0--|--1-----------------|-----5--------------|--0--|
|-----|--------------------|--3-----------------|-----|
|     |                    |                    |     |
|     |                    |                    |     |
|--5--|--6--6-----5--5-----|--6--6-----5--5-----|--5--|
|--5--|--3--3-----5--5-----|--8--8-----5--5-----|--5--|
|--5--|--3--3-----5--5-----|--7--7-----5--5-----|--5--| Gtr 2
|--7--|--------------------|--------------------|--7--| w/ wah
|--0--|--------------------|--------------------|--0--|
|-----|--------------------|--------------------|-----|

Am                                          Bb Am Gm Am
Margie doesn't say anything all the way home
Am
So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone

  Gm        Am         Bb        C
|--------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------1--|--------3--------1--|
|--------3-----2-----|-----3--------2-----| Both guitars repeat
|-----5--------------|--------------------| this, and continue
|-----------0--------|--1--------3--------| over organ solo
|--3-----------------|--------------------|

Organ solo over Gm Am Bb C

Re-intro: The wurlitzer plays this, with slight variation, 8 times:
|----------------|
|----------------|
|-----10--10--9--| Wurlitzer figure 1
|--0--0---0---0--|
|----------------|
|----------------|

|--------5-----------|
|-----6-----6--------|
|--7-----------7-----| Guitar 1 plays this 4 times, starting on
|-----------------0--| the fifth repeat in the wurlitzer part
|--------------------|
|--------------------|

|-----10--|----13--|----15--|
|----x----|---x----|---x----|
|---x-----|--x-----|--x-----| Guitar 2 plays this, with a lot of
|--x------|--------|--------| distortion and wah, starting on the
|---------|--------|--------| fifth repeat in the wurlitzer part
|---------|--------|--------|

Verse:
Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and
TV dinners and letters she won't send, and
* (w/ fill 1)
Every race night is shot through with sunlight
* (w/ fill 4)
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for...

|---------|--8--------8/10--|
|-----10--|-----8-----------|
|/10------|--------9--------| Fill 4, played by guitar 2
|---------|-----------------|
|---------|-----------------|
|---------|-----------------|

Bb      C           Bb     C
Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and
Bb       C              Gm        Am
Boys who can't tell one girl from another

   Bb       C        Gm       Am
||---6--6-----8--8---||--3--3-----5--5----|-------|
||---3--3-----5--5---||--3--3-----5--5----|-------|
||*--3--3-----5--5--*||--3--3-----5--5----|-------| Guitar 1
||*-----------------*||-------------------|-------|
||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
||                   ||                   |       |
||------------5~~~---||-----5-----8--5--8/|10~~~--|
||------------5~~~---||-/6-----6----------|-------|
||*-----------5~~~--*||-------------------|-------| Guitar 2 w/ slide
||*-----------5~~~--*||-------------------|-------|
||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This measure repeated 3 times

(with Wurlitzer figure 1, 4 times)
So she takes her pills
Careful and round
* (w/ fill 3, second measure only)
One of these days she's gonna
    throw the whole bottle down

But she's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of...

Trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
But Margery's dreaming of horses

Wurlitzer and Guitar 1 play the intro again
|-----10~~--|
|----x------|
|---x-------| Guitar 2 plays this, and then is tacet
|--x--------|
|-----------|
|-----------|

Finish with another organ solo, with both guitars playing the same
Gm Am Bb C progression they did the first time


The Counting Crows albums
2004 Films About Ghosts: The Best Of...
2002 Hard Candy
1999 This Desert Life
1998 Across a Wire: Live in New York
1996 Recovering the Satellites
1993 August and Everything After
Recovering the Satellites tabs
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02Angels of the Silences tabbass tab
03Daylight Fading tabbass tab
04I'm Not Sleeping tabbass tab
05Goodnight Elisabeth tabbass tab
06Children in Bloom tabbass tab
07Have You Seen Me Lately? tabbass tab
08Miller's Angels tabbass tab
09Another Horsedreamer's Blues tabbass tab
10Recovering the Satellites tabbass tab
11Monkey tabbass tab
12Mercury tabbass tab
13A Long December tabbass tab
14Walkaways tabbass tab

 

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