ANOTHER HORSEDREAMER'S BLUES
by COUNTING CROWS
Intro:
Wurlitzer arranged for guitar: (Play this three times)
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|--------------------------------10---------|
|--10--9--------9------------10------10--9--|
|--0---0-----0-----10-----0--------------0--|
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|-------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------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---------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
|----------|-------------|-----------------|-------------|
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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:
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|----------------|
|-----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~~~--*||-------------------|-------|
||-------------------||-------------------|-------|
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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