name: Cian Duggan
artist: Counting Crows
SongTitle: Mrs. Potters Lullabye
Tabs: NB :
***Guitar 1 : CAPO 1(chords ie : should really be a piano)distorted
w/slight tremelo
***Guitar 2 : No Capo (fills)slightly distorted .
Play this riff while strumming the G chord:
e|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
B|--X-X-1-1-0-0-0-0--|
G|--0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2--|
D|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
A|--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--|
E|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
INTRO : G
( guitar 1 )
GC DG
Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most
G C D G
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host
Bm C G
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts
DCG
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast
GC DG(fill 1)
well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
GC DG(fill 2)
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
Bm CG(fill 3)
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame
D
and though I'll never forget your face,
CG(fill 4)
sometimes i can't remember my name
Bm C GD
Hey Mrs. Potter don't cry
Hey Mrs. Potter I know why but
Bm C G D C C/B G
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
(fill 5)
G CD G
Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
GCDG
And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
BmC G
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to
ring
DCG
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything
G CD G(fill 6)
Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said
GCDG(fill 2)
And the ghosts of the childer world will linger inside your head
Bm CG
And the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead
D CG(fill 1 )
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bed
Bm C G D
Hey Mrs. Potter don't go
Hey Mrs. Potter I don't know but
Bm C G D C C/B G
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
(fill 7 )
G CD G
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
G CD G
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
Bm C G(fill 8)
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
DC G(fill 9 )
Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep
GCDG(fill 10)
So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams
GC D G(fill 11)
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
Bm CG
Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
D
But I'd sure like to find out
C G
So why don't you climb down off that movie screen
Bm C G D
Hey Mrs. Potter don't turn
Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for you
Bm C G D C C/BG
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
GCD G
When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor
GD/F#
and orders another
EmDBm
Well, I wonder what he did that for
BmC G
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there
before
D CG(fill 12)
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door
G CDG(fill 13)
We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
GCDG(fill 14)
We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town
bars
BmC G
We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
DC G
You can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far
D C G(fill 14)
Oh, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far
Bm C G D
Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch
Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but
Bm C G D C C/B G
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
FILLS : ( guitar 2 )
fill 1 :
e|---------------------------------------------
B|--11b13--13---11---9-------------------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 2 :
e|--13----13-14p13----13--16----14-13----------
B|-----13----------13--------13-------13-------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 3 :
e|---------------------------------------------
B|--14b16--18s16--13---------------------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 4 :
e|---------11---8------------------------------
B|--11b13-----------9--------------------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 5 :
e|--13-----13p11-------------------------------
B|-----------------13--------------------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 6 :
e|----------------------8p6---9p8---6---8---9--
B|--8h9---10---9---13--------------------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 7 :
e|--13p11--------------------------------------
B|---------13---11---9-------------------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 8 :
e|---------------------------------------------
B|--11b13---11b13r11---11----9-----------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 9 :
e|---------------------------------------------
B|--16-----16----16----16----13----------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 10 :
e|--16----16----16----16-----------------------
B|-----14----14----14-----13----9--------------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 11 :
e|---------------------------------------------
B|--13p11-9-11-13p11-9-11-13p11-9-11---13------
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 12 :
e|---------------------------------------------
B|--14b16--11-13-11----11----------------------
G|------------------13----13--13---------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 13 :
e|-------------------------------11------------
B|--13p11-------------11----13-----------------
G|---------13p12--12---------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
fill 14 :
e|--12-----12-----12-----12-----12-------------
B|--15b17--15b17--15b17--15b17--15b17r15-15----
G|---------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------
tabbed by Cian Duggan
Thats it
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