This file is part of a collection that (moreso than the rest of the site) are not meant to be detailed or accurate transcriptions of the original recordings. They're just some simple chord charts that I made for my own use, some of them my own arrangements.
"A LONG DECEMBER" by Counting Crows www.countingcrows.com
From their 1996 album Recovering the Satellites
Written by Adam Duritz
Transcribed by T-rev www.t-rev.net
F B♭2 Gm B♭2
F B♭2 Gm
B♭ F C Gm
A long December and there's reason to believe
B♭ F B♭
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm B♭ F C
I can't remember the last thing that you said
Gm F B♭2
As you were leaving, now the days go by so fast
F B♭ Gm
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F B♭ Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
F B♭ Gm
If you think that I could be forgiven
F B♭ Gm B♭ F B♭ Gm
I wish you would
B♭ F C Gm
The smell of hospitals in winter and the feeling
B♭ F B♭
That it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
Gm B♭ F C
All at once, you look across a crowded room
Gm F B♭2
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
F B♭ Gm
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F B♭ Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
F B♭ Gm
If you think you might come to California
F B♭ Gm B♭ F B♭ Gm
I think you should
B♭ F C Gm
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 A.M
B♭ F B♭
And talked a little while about the year
Gm B♭ F C
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Gm F
Makes you talk a little lower
B♭2
About the things you could not show her and it's been a
B♭ F C Gm
Long December and there's reason to believe
B♭ F B♭
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm B♭ F C
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
Gm F B♭2
To hold on to these moments as they pass
F B♭ Gm
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F B♭ Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
F B♭ Gm
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean
F B♭ Gm B♭ F B♭ Gm
I guess I should
Transcribed 2024-09-23 by T-rev
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133211 F
x13311 B♭2
355333 Gm
x32010 C
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