This is my favourite song of the absolutely brilliant Gregory Alan Isakov. Unfortunately there are no very good tabs around. I have been working on the song for a long time and actually used it to learn some basic picking techniques. I could have tabbed the whole thing but it would not be worth the effort because you only need to know the correct chords and then learn the picking pattern yourself. I don't know it 100% correctly, Greg plays it very differently live, so there is no 100% correct version. Make up your little mix of hammers and pulls, just like I have. I will post a little part of the intro to get you going. Once you have your thumb moving irrespective of your other fingers, a whole new world of guitar playing will open up. That's what this song has done for me. It takes some time, but it is well worth it. Capo 3rd -------------------------------------------------------- (First part of Intro, exemplary picking pattern tabbed. ‚t‘ marks notes played by thumb, 0/2 marks hammer on from open string to 2nd for example. When a note is put right beneath a hammered on note, play that note simultaneously with the hammering) e|----------3----1----------1-------------------------------------------------| B|--------1---1------------------0—-1-----------1-----------------1-----------| G|------0------------0---------------------0/2------2--------0/2-----2--------| D|----2------------0t---------0t--------2t--------2t------2t------------------| A|--3t------------------------------0t-------0t---------0t-----0t-------------| E|---------------3t------3t---------------------------------------------------| C2 G2 Am e|-----------------------------1—0--------------------------------------------| B|--1-----------1---------------------1---1-------3-----1----0----------------| G|--------0/2---------2----------------------------------------------0--------| D|-----3t---------3t-------3t-----3t----------0t----------0t-------0t---------| A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|--1t------1t----------1t-----1t---------3t---------3t--------3t-------3t----| F1 G3 ----- end of picking example --------------------------------- Chords used: e|--0---0---0-------0--------3---1---0---0------5---3----1--------------| B|--1---1---1---1---1--------1---0---3---1------0---1----3--------------| G|--0---0---2---0---2--------0---0---0---0------0---0----2--------------| D|--2---0---2---2---3--------0---0---0---0(2)---3---2----0--------------| A|--3---2---0---x---3--------2---2---2---2----------3-------------------| E|------3-------3---1--------3---3---3---3------------------------------| C1 G3 Am* Am/G F1** G1 G2 G4 G5*** F2 C2 Dm *always hammer on 0/1 on B-sting when switching to this chord **use left hand thumb for bass F! ***hammer on 0/2 and pull off again on D-string (Intro) C2 G2 Am Am F1 F1 G1 G2 C2 G2 Am Am F2 C2 G1 C2 G1 G2 G3 G4 C G3 Am Am7/G F Well, it's 3 a.m. again, like it always seems to be G1 G2 Am Am/G F Driving northbound, driving homeward, driving wind is driving me. G1 G2 Am Am7/G F It just seems so funny how I always end up here G1 G2 Am Am/G F walking outside in a storm while looking way up past the treeline. G1 G2 G3 G4 It's been some time. Am F G5 G5 Give me darkness when I'm dreaming, give me moonlight when I'm leaving, Am F G5 G5 Give me shoes that weren't made for standing. Am F G5 G5 Give me treeline, give me big sky, give me snowbound, give me rainclouds, Am G1 G2 G3 G4 give me bedtime just sometimes. C G3 Am Am7/G F Now you're talking in my room, there ain't nobody here, G1 G2 Am Am/G F Cause I've been driving like a trucker, I've been wearing through the gears G1 G2 Am Am/G F I've been training like a soldier, I've been burning through this sorrow G1 G2 Am Am/G F G1 G2 G3 G4 The only talking lately is a background radio Dm F G5 G5 You are my friend and I was a saint Dm F G5 G5 And riding that hope was like catching some train Dm F G5 G5 Now I just walk, but I don't mind the rain Dm F G5 G5 Singing so much softer than I did back then (Interlude) C2 G2 Am Am F2 C2 G1 C2 G1 G2 G3 G4 C G Am Am7/G F Well the night I think is darker, than we can really say, G1 G2 Am Am/G F God's been living in that ocean, sending us all the big waves Am F G5 G5 And I wish I was a sailor so I could know just how to trust Am F G5 G5 Maybe I could bring some grace back home to dry land for each of us Dm F G5 G5 Say what you see, you say it so well Dm F G5 G5 Just say you will wait like snow on the rail Dm F G5 G5 Combing that train yard for some kind of saint Dm F G5 G5 Even my own self, it just don't seem mine Am F G5 G5 Give me darkness when I'm dreaming, give me moonlight when I'm leaving Am F G5 G5 Give me mustang horse and muscle, oh, I won't be going gentle Am F G5 G5 Give me slandered looks when I'm lying, give me fingers when I'm crying Am F G5 G5 I ain't out there to cheat you, see I killed that damn coyote in me (Outro) Am Am F F G5 G5 G5 G5