Mercury(Tabs)

	        Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:00:10 -0800 
From: 'Michael A. Mazur'  
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, 'Mercury' 
 
Tab: 'Mercury' Counting Crows 
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur ([email protected]) 
 
Guitar 1 is an acoustic, tuned to open Eb (Eb Bb Eb G Bb Eb) 
Guitar 2 is a mandolin, tuned down 1/2 step (Gb Db Ab Eb) 
 
Note: Watch the time signature here. The main riff is in 14/8, which 
I think of as a measure of 6 followed by a measure of 8 (as 
I indicate below). But, the rest of the song is in 8/8, and the 
shifts from 14/8 to 8/8 and back again are subtle. 
 
Intro and main riff:  
 
|  |-----0-----------|----0--------------| 
|  |--------0--2/3\2-|-------0-----0-----| 
|14|-----------2/3\2-|-0--------------0--| Guitar 1 (all of guitar 1 
| 8|-----------2/3\2-|-0-----------------| is played with a slide) 
|  |-----------2/3\2-|-0-----------------| 
|  |--0--------------|-0--------0--------| 
    (6/8)             (8/8) 
 
Verse: (guitar 1 plays main riff over Eb) 
| |/5--------5--------| 
| |/5--5-----5--------| 
|8|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1 plays this for the Ab chord 
|8|/5--------5-----5--| (note the change to 8/8) 
| |/5--------5--------| 
| |/5--------5--------| 
 
 
Eb 
She is trapped inside a month of grey 
And they take a little every day 
         Ab 
She is a victim of her own responses 
                                  Eb 
Shackled to a heart that wants to settle 
And the runs away 
 
Chorus: 
   Bb                  Ab 
| |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------| 
| |/7--7-----7--------|/5--5-----5--------| 
|8|/7-----7--7--7-----|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1 
|8|/7--------7-----7--|/5--------5-----5--| (again in 8/8) 
| |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------| 
| |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------| 
 
       Bb               Ab 
It's a sin to be fading endlessly 
                  Eb (guitar 1 plays main riff) 
Yeah, but she's alright with me 
 
She is leaving on a walkaway 
She is leaving me in disarray 
In the absence of a place to be 
She stands there looking back at me 
Hesitates, and then turns away 
She'll change so suddenly 
She's just like mercury 
Yeah, but she's alright with me 
 
Bridge: 
|/12--| 
|/12--| 
|/12--| Guitar 1 plays this at the end of the chorus, and then 
|/12--| plays the main riff over the bridge 
|/12--| 
|/12--| 
 
|------------------------------| 
|--7--7--7--7--9--9b(10)r9--9--| Guitar 2 (trem. picked) 
|------------------------------| 
|------------------------------| 
 
(Guitar 1 plays last 8/14 of main riff once) 
 
Keep some sorrow in your 
hearts and minds 
For the things that die before their time 
For the restlessly abandoned homes 
The tired and weary rambler's bones 
And stay beside me where I lie 
She's entwined in me 
Crazy as can be 
Yeah, but she's alright with me