Long December
Adam Duritz

Counting Crows
Recovering the Satellites
1996

Well, the Wallflowers/Counting Crows concert came and went.
The Counting Crows completely ruled!  Adam had the best stage
presence I've ever seen.  You KNEW he was into it.  And
therefore you were into it too.  But the guitarist (Dan
Vickrey) was playing an acoustic so here's the song!  It's an
awesome one which they closed with.  Have fun!

Capo 1st

PIANO INTRO:

E	A	F#m	A
E	A	F#m


A           E                  B           F#m
   A long December and there's reason to believe
      A                E                A
Maybe this year will be better than the last
F#m          A          E                   B
   I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'
A            E          A
   Now the days go by so fast

CHORUS
         E               A           F#m      A
And it's one more day up in the canyons
         E                 A          F#m
And it's one more night in Hollywood
       E                  A          F#m
If you think that I could be forgiven
A                E
   I wish you would

Na na na...
E	A	F#m	A
E	A	F#m


The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all oysters but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl

CHORUS
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California
I think you should

Na na na...

GUITAR SOLO

E	A	F#m	A
E	A	F#m


Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

CHORUS
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean
I guess I should

Na na na... (Repeats 4 times)

F#m
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah