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Catapult

Counting Crows
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★4.7(11)

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:52:38 -0800

From: "Michael A. Mazur" <mmazur@WPI.EDU>

Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Catapult"

Tab: "Catapult" by Counting Crows

Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

Revised by Aaron Carlino (acarlino@Empire.Net)

Intro: Hammond Organ arranged for guitar (play twice):

||---0----------12----0-----------0----------|
||---9--10--12--------15--14--12--9--10--12--|
||*------------------------------------------|
||*------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------|
|--0----------0--0---0--0--0--0--0---||
|--9--10--12-----10--9--7--5--7--9---||
|-----------------------------------*||
|-----------------------------------*||
|------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------||

After the first time, guitar 1 enters with a little distortion and a

lot of tremolo:

|--0--
|--0--

|--1-- hold for 8 beats

|--2--
|--2--
|--0--

Verse:

|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----2--1-----1--------1-----2--4--|
|-----------4-----4--2-----2--------|
|-----------------------------------|
|--0--------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----2--1-----1--------1-----2--1--|
|-----------4-----2--4-----2--------|
|-----------------------------------|
|--0--------------------------------|

E Asus2 Asus2/G#

All of a sudden she disappears,

just yesterday she was here

somebody tell me if I am sleeping

someone should be with me here (cause I don't want to be alone)

Chorus:

Guitar 1 plays this riff twice

|---------------------------------12------------------|
|-----12------12------10------10------10--12b(14)r12--|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|/13------13------13------11--------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-----12------10--------10-----10-----9-----9-----|
|-----------------9---------9------9-----9-----9--|
|/13------13--------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|

*Second time, end here ^

B A E

I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand

and I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult

What a big baby won't somebody save me please

B A

You won't find nobody home

Verse 2: (same as first)

all of these quiet battered voices

wait for the hunger to come

we got little revolvers and stupid choices

and no one to say when we're done

(Well I don't wanna bring you down)

I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes

'cause I know there's little things about me

that would sing in this silence of so much rejection

in every connection I make

I can't find nobody home

Solo:

|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|--12--------12--10b(12)r10--9---10b(11)r10--9--9b(10)r9b(10)r9--|
|------9--9------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|----12--------------------------------------|
|--------9--9--9\7p6--6b(7)--6\4--4b(6)r4\2--|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|--9h10h12--9--9h10h12--12b(14)r12--10--9--10b(12)r10--9--|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|------12------14------16------17b(19)r17--16--16b(17)r16--14--12--|
|--12------12------12------12--------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|

I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes

'cause I know there's little things about me

that would sing in this silence of so much rejection

in every connection I make

I can't find nobody home

Guitar 1 plays this over the last repeats of the chorus

|------12--11------12--11--|------12--11------12--11--|
|--12----------12----------|--12----------12----------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|------12--11------12--11--|--12/14--14--14--14--14b(16)r14--|
|--12----------12----------|---------------------------------|
|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|--7--7--7--7--7--7--|--5--5--5--5--7--7/9--|--7--7--7--7--7--7--|
|--7--7--7--7--7--7--|--5--5--5--5----------|--7--7--7--7--7--7--|
|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
|--5--5--5--5--7--7/9--|------11--12------11--12--|
|--5--5--5--5----------|--12----------12----------|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
|------11--12--12b(14)r12--11--|------11--12------11--12\0--|
|--12--------------------------|--12----------12------------|
|------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------|----------------------------|

Outro riff, repeat with feedback

||--12--11--12--12b(14)r12--11----||
||--------------------------------||
||*------------------------------*||
||*------------------------------*||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||

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