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Goodnight Elisabeth

Counting Crows
Tab
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This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro

e|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----3--3b5--3---3-3b5-3--3-3b5-3---1------3p1-----------|
G|----0-0-------0---0-----0--0-----0--0----0----0----------| x2
D|--------------------------------------0h2-2--------------|
A|-----------------------------------3-3-------------------|
E|-2s3-------3---2------2--1-----1-------------------------|

Verse 1

G D

I was wasted in the afternoon

F C

Waiting on a train

G D

I woke up in pieces and Elisabeth

F C

Had disappeared again

G D

I wish you were inside of me

F C

I hope that you're okay

G D

I hope you're resting quietly

F C

I just wanted to say

Chorus 1

G D

Good, goodnight Elisabeth

F C

Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight

(repeat)

[Verse 2] (same chords)

We couldn't all be cowboys

So some of us are clowns

Some of us are dancers on the midway

We roam from town to town

I hope that everybody can find a little flame

Me, I say my prayers, then I just light myself on fire

And I walk out on the wire once again

And I say

[Chorus 2] (same chords)

Good, goodnight Elisabeth

Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight

Solo

(Note: I'm not sure if the soloing guitar is actually capoed, but it

doesn't really matter. Notes posted here are again relative to the capo

so in actuality everything is up two frets)

e|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----8-10b12-10b12b10-8-10-10b12b10-8-11b13-10b12-8h10--------|
G|-7s9-------------------------------------------------7-------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------------17-------------|
B|-----1p0-1s3----7-8p7-7s9---------13p12--15b17--15b7b15-13---|
G|----0---0-----s7-----7----------12-----12--------------------|
D|-0h2-----------------------12h14-----------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-12b13b12----------------------------------------------------|
G|---------14-14b16b14-12--------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse 3] (same chords)

I will wait for you in baton rouge

Ill miss you down in new orleans

Ill wait for you while she slips in something comfortable

And Ill miss you when Im slipping in between

If you wrap yourself in daffodils

I will wrap myself in pain

And if youre the queen of california

Baby I am the king of the rain

And I say

[Chorus 3] (same chords)

Good, goodnight Elisabeth

Goodnight Elisabeth, goodnight

Good, goodnight Elisabeth

The moon's a satellite, yeah

Won't you fall down on me now

Won't you fall down on me

Come, come, come fall down

On me now

Won't you fall down on me

I'm all alone

And you ain't comin' home

We just settle down, down, down into bone

I said I'm all alone

And you ain't comin' home

We just settle down, down, down into bone

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