New Frontier

New Frontier

Counting Crows

Standard tuning E A D G B E

Riff 1: (there are variations throughout)

C Gm Bb F

E-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

B-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

G-|-----5-5-3-3-2-2-----3-3-2-2-0-0-----3-3-2-2-0-0-----0---0---0-2--|-

D-|-----------------------------------------------------------3------|-

A-|-3-3-----------------------------1-1------------------------------|-

E-|-----------------3-3-----------------------------1-1--------------|-

Intro: (one guitar plays riff 1, another plays riff 2 - below)

Come on children mind the gap

Riff 2:

C Gm Bb F

E-|-15--------------15--13-12-------13-12----13-12--------15-----15--|-

B-|---------------------------13----------13-------13----------------|-

G-|---------------------------------------------------12-----12------|-

D-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

A-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

E-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

C Gm Bb F

E-|-15--------15-17-18--------------18-17----18-17--------21-----21--|-

B-|---------------------------------------18-------18----------------|-

G-|---------------------------------------------------17-----17------|-

D-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

A-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

E-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-

Verse 1: (one guitar plays riff 1, another plays the chords)

C Gm

Miracle people with marvelous hair

Bb F

And a knack to do anything better than anyone

C Gm

I got a home with electrical air

Bb F

And I live in a world smaller than anyone's

C Gm

But I got a line on a new frontier

Bb F

I got a line on the new America

C Gm

All of the people are vanishing here

Bb F

I could be huge if I could just get

Chorus 1:

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside of you

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside of you

Verse 2: (with riff 1)

C Gm Bb F

Purest Aluminum people are walking the streets of London so hysterical

C Gm

Nobody here gets a word that I say

Bb F

And the problems, I'm told, are more than medical

C Gm

But I got a friend from the new frontier

Bb F

And Galen, she says, "This is not America.

C Gm

You need a girl with electrical hair

Bb F

And the word that you wanted was aluminium."

Chorus 2:

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside of you

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside

Solo chords: Key of F - play around with riff 2.

C Gm Bb F (play through four times)

Verse 3:

C Gm Bb

I was in bed with a girl at the end of the world

F Gm C Gm Bb F

She said "I'm going home. You should come home too."

C Gm

But I'm at the end of the new frontier

Bb F

Here at the edge of the flat earth ending

C Gm

I'm getting off to get lost in the air

Bb F

At the end of the world where the light is bending

Chorus 3:

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside of you

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside of you

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside of you

Gm Am Dm C

From the outside of everything to the inside

Outro chords: (repeat as necessary)

C Gm Bb F