More songs by Counting Crows

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- T-rev

"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
More tab available at www.t-rev.net

133211 F
x13311 B♭2
355333 Gm
x32010 C

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