Tabs
Tab: "Mercury" Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur ([email protected])
Guitar 1 is an acoustic, tuned to open 
Eb MajorEb (Eb MajorEb 
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb 
G+G Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb)
Guitar 2 is a mandolin, tuned down 1/2 step (
GbGb 
DbDb 
AbAb Eb MajorEb)
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 MajorEb)
| |/5--------5--------|
| |/5--5-----5--------|
|8|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1 plays this for the AbAb chord
|8|/5--------5-----5--| (note the change to 8/8)
| |/5--------5--------|
| |/5--------5--------|
Eb MajorEb
She is trapped ...
And they ..
AbAb
She is a ...
Eb MajorEb
Shackled to ...
And then ...
Chorus:
Bb majorBb AbAb
| |/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 majorBb AbAb
It's a sin ...
Eb MajorEb (guitar 1 plays main riff)
Yeah, but ...
She is ..
She is ..
In the ..
She stands ..
Hesitates, ..
She'll ..
She's ..
Yeah, but ..
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 ..
hearts ..
For ..
For ..
The tired ..
And stay ..
She's ..
Crazy ..
Yeah, ..
