New Frontier
Counting Crows
Standard tuning E A D G B E
Riff 1: (there are variations throughout) C Gm Bb FE-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-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 FE-|-15--------------15--13-12-------13-12----13-12--------15-----15--|-B-|---------------------------13----------13-------13----------------|-G-|---------------------------------------------------12-----12------|-D-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-A-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-E-|------------------------------------------------------------------|-
C Gm Bb FE-|-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
