God Of Ocean Tides tab

God Of Ocean Tides

This song seems like a combination of their cover of "Girl From The North Country" and 
Pearl Jam's "Just
Breathe". It is destined to be one of the Crows' most best, though I say that every time 
they release anything.

The guitarist (not sure whether it is Dan Vickrey but I assume so) fingerpicks this 
song. I will tab out the
intro because it gives a pretty good representation of the pattern and variations he 
uses throughout the song.
The bass is played by alternating the thumb between the lowest and second lowest string 
every 1/4 note. When he
does the walkdown during the verses ("And I buy all my days"), he seems to only hit the 
bass note of each chord
so I have notated it as such.

In the "chorus", for lack of a better term, the D-G-D-G parts ("All night long"), he 
strums the chords.

Now on to the bridge. It gets sort of difficult here because the second guitar starts 
playing a big part and
there is also more occasional strumming. At the beginning I wrote Bm7 but I'm not 
completely sure. It sounds
good to use a Gmaj7/B but I don't think that's actually being played on the acoustic 
guitar. At "colored lights",
a very distinctive picking pattern appears and I have written it out there. The chord 
names represent those
picking patterns until the end of the bridge, at which point you can return to normal 
chord forms. Sorry if it
is confusing, but I promise I could have made it much worse.

Sorry to make you read so much. I hope my tab does this beautiful song justice.

*Lyrics adapted from LyricsMania.com

Intro:

  C
e|----------------|-------0-------|---------------|-----------------|
B|--1---------0---|-3---------3---|-----------0---|-----------------|
G|--------0-------|---------------|-------0-------|-------0-0-------|
D|------2-------2-|-----2-------2-|-----2-------2-|-----2-----2---2-|
A|--3-------3-----|-3-------3-----|-3-------3-----|-3-----------3---|
E|----------------|---------------|---------------|-----------------|

Verse 1:

G
Close the door on a short night
D
Lift the lid on the daylight
Em                  C
6:09 West Tennessee time
      C   /B  /A  G
And I buy all my  days
G      D                                   C
At the same place where the girl sells her nights
     C      /B  /A  G
To a God of ocean   tides.

Chorus:

D   G     D
All night long,
G       C            G
Writing poems to California
Em
Melodies of failure
        Am
And the people I have thrown
    D    G   D      G         C           G
A - way, meanwhile, somewhere west of Carolina
     Em
In a congregation of strangers
       A
We are digging holes to China
        C
Then we pray to our reflections
       C
In the water when it rises.

Verse 2:

       G
I said headlights pin the highway down
D
Jesus spins the world around
         Em                            C
And I’ll spend all my tomorrows coming down
    C   /B  /A  G
Goodbye all my  days.
         D
I know I said I never loved you
      C          C    /B     /A     G
But I might just try again tonight.

Bridge:

Bm7(Gmaj7/B)    C
Truck stops and river gods
    D               G
Gas stations of the Cross
D
Following a ghost,
Am
Following a ghost,
  C              D
I pray the water wash away
    Em       D       Cmaj7
The memories and the cost.
D          G           Cadd9
Carry me south, to the sea
Em              G           Cmaj7
Along with your memories of me
       D           G
We are born in the water
           G  /A   /B  Cadd9
And I will re-turn to  Thee.

  Cadd9(2)
e|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|
B|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|
G|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|
D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|--3-------3-------|--3-------3-------|--3-------3-------|--3-------3-------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----|

  G5/D
e|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|----3-------3-----|
B|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|--------3-------3-|
G|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|
D|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----|

  G/D
e|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|----7-------7-----|
B|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|--------8-------8-|
G|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|------0-------0---|
D|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|---0------0-------|--0-------0-------|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------=-----|------------=-----|

Cadd9
Colored lights
    G5/D
And birthday cakes
Cadd9
Candle wax
   G/D
On paper plates.
Cadd9
Breathe the water
G/D
Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye.
        Cadd9
You can see through water
                      G/D (only 2 measures)
All the way up to the sky.

Verse 3:

G
Gods of water, gods of rain
D
Cover up the sun again
       Em                             C
We are crossing it at the Mississippi line
      C     /B  /A  G
And I tried all my  days
D                                    C
To love you just the way you hoped I might,
        C       /B   /A G
But I’m leaving here to-night.
  D
I can’t remember yesterday
  C           C      /B  /A  G
I tried, if I said I could
G
I lied.

Outro:

Em  C

Cadd9


Chords:

Verse/Chorus
C            X32010
G            320003
D            XX0232
Em           022000
Am           X02210
A            X02220

Bridge
Bm7          X24232
(Gmaj7/B)    X2403X
Cmaj7        X32000
Cadd9        X32030
Cadd9(2)     X32033
G5/D         XX0033
G/D          XX0087

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