• Song:

    New Frontier

  • Artist:

    Counting crows

  • Album:

    2004-10-03: Ahoy, Rotte...

New Frontier
Counting Crows

Standard tuning E A D G B E

Riff 1: (there are variations throughout)
    C (x32010@1)             Gm (355333@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)            FE-|------------------------------------------------------------------|- (133211@1)B-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-
G-|-----5-5-3-3-2-2-----3-3-2-2-0-0-----3-3-2-2-0-0-----0---0---0-2--|-
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------3------|-
A-|-3-3-----------------------------1-1------------------------------|-
E-|-----------------3-3-----------------------------1-1--------------|-


Intro: (one guitar plays riff 1, another plays riff 2 - below)
Come on children mind the gap

Riff 2:
    C (x32010@1)             Gm (355333@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)              FE-|-15--------------15--13-12-------13-12----13-12--------15-----15--|- (133211@1)B-|---------------------------13----------13-------13----------------|-
G-|---------------------------------------------------12-----12------|-
D-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-
A-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-
E-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

    C (x32010@1)             Gm (355333@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)              FE-|-15--------15-17-18--------------18-17----18-17--------21-----21--|- (133211@1)B-|---------------------------------------18-------18----------------|-
G-|---------------------------------------------------17-----17------|-
D-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-
A-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-
E-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-


Verse 1: (one guitar plays riff 1, another plays the chords)
C (x32010@1)                  GmMiracle (355333@1)people with marvelous hair
      Bb (x1333x@1)                 FAnd (133211@1)a knack to do anything better than anyone
C (x32010@1)                GmI (355333@1)got a home with electrical air
      Bb (x1333x@1)            FAnd (133211@1)I live in a world smaller than anyone's
    C (x32010@1)               GmBut (355333@1)I got a line on a new frontier
Bb (x1333x@1)                FI (133211@1)got a line on the new America
C (x32010@1)                    GmAll (355333@1)of the people are vanishing here
Bb (x1333x@1)                 FI (133211@1)could be huge if I could just get


Chorus 1:
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside of you
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside of you


Verse 2: (with riff 1)
C (x32010@1)             Gm (355333@1)                   Bb (x1333x@1)              FPurest (133211@1)Aluminum people are walking the streets of London so hysterical
C (x32010@1)                GmNobody (355333@1)here gets a word that I say
        Bb (x1333x@1)                    FAnd (133211@1)the problems, I'm told, are more than medical
    C (x32010@1)                     GmBut (355333@1)I got a friend from the new frontier
    Bb (x1333x@1)                      FAnd (133211@1)Galen, she says, "This is not America.
C (x32010@1)                    GmYou (355333@1)need a girl with electrical hair
        Bb (x1333x@1)                     FAnd (133211@1)the word that you wanted was aluminium."


Chorus 2:
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside of you
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside


Solo chords: Key of F - play around with riff 2.
C  Gm  Bb  F  (play through four times)


Verse 3:
C (x32010@1)                 Gm (355333@1)                   BbI (x1333x@1)was in bed with a girl at the end of the world
              F (133211@1)name="chord_355333@1">Gm  C (x32010@1)   Gm (355333@1)                 Bb (x1333x@1)  FShe (133211@1)said "I'm going home. You should come home too."
    C (x32010@1)                   GmBut (355333@1)I'm at the end of the new frontier
Bb (x1333x@1)                    FHere (133211@1)at the edge of the flat earth ending
C (x32010@1)                    GmI'm (355333@1)getting off to get lost in the air
       Bb (x1333x@1)                       FAt (133211@1)the end of the world where the light is bending


Chorus 3:
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside of you
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside of you
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside of you
Gm (355333@1)       Am (x02210@1)           Dm (xx0231@1)          C (x32010@1) From the outside of everything to the inside
 

Outro chords: (repeat as necessary)
C (x32010@1)Gm (355333@1)Bb (x1333x@1)F (133211@1)
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