• Song:

    Another Horsedreamers Blues

  • Artist:

    Counting crows

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
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