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Mrs Potter’s Lullaby
Counting Crows
From the Album: The Desert Life

Guitar chords and tab by Joe Sutton (Jezza) joesutton@hotmail.com
Lyrics from www.azlyrics.com (slight amendments)

Key: Ab (transcribed in A, you must tune to Eb to play along with recording)

This is those piano chords from the intro arranged for guitar.  Mute strums opti

(Ariff), play this:

    1 . & . 2 . & . 3 . & . 4 . & . | 1 . & . 2 . & . 3 . & . 4 . & . 
eb|-0---x-0---0---x-0---x-0---0---x-|-0---x-0---0---x-0---x-0---0---x-|
Bb|-2---x-3---3---x-2---x-0---0---x-|-0h2-x-3---3---x-2---x-0---0---x-|
Gb|-2---x-2---2---x-2---x-2---2---x-|-2---x-2---2---x-2---x-2---2---x-|
Db|-2---x-2---2---x-2---x-2---2---x-|-2---x-2---2---x-2---x-2---2---x-|
Ab|-0---x-----------0---------------|-0---x-----------0---------------|
Eb|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

Same chords all the way through. Timing is a little tough

         A                   D                         E             A(riff)
Well I woke up in mid afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most

          A                          D              E          A(riff)
I dream I never know anyone at the party, and I'm al-ways the host.

C#m                            D                          A(riff)
If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts.

        E                       D                        A(riff)
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast.


Well I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
If you've never stared off into the distance then your life is a shame
And though I'll never forget your face sometimes I can't remember my name

C#m    D      A     E
Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't cry
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I know why
     C#m    D    E               D       A(riff)
But, hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me

Well there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything

Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said
Oh and the ghosts of the tilt-o-whirl will linger inside of your head
Oh and the Ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead
When I see you, a blanket of stars covers me in my bed

Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't go, I said
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I don't know, but
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me

Well all the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep

So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
Well I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
Aw, but I'd sure like to find out
So why don't you climb down off that movie screen

Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't turn
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I burn for you
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me

When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor
And orders another. Well, I wonder what he did that for
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door. Yeah.

We drive out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
We stand up in the Palace, like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars
Aw, we shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars

Well, you can see a million miles tonight
But you can't get very far
Aw, you can see a million miles tonight
But you can't get very far

Hey, Mrs. Potter, I won't touch and
Hey, Mrs. Potter, it's not much but
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me [3X]