A Long December Chords by Counting Crows

[F] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb]
A [F] long December, [C] then there's reason [Gm] to believe [Bb] Maybe this year [F] will be better [Bb] than the last
_ _ [Gm]
I can't [Bb] remember [F] the last thing [C] that you said as you [Gm] were leaving
[F] But the days go by [Bb] so fast, _ [F] and it's one more [Bb] day up in the [Gm] canyons
_ [F] And it's one more [Bb] night in Hollywood, [Gm] _ _ _ [F] and to think that [Bb] I could be forgiven
[Gm] I _ [F] wish you would, [Bb] la la la la, [Gm] la la [Bb] la la la, la [F] la la la la, [Bb] la la la la [Gm] la, yeah
The _ [Bb] _
[F] smell of hospital [C] in winter, [Gm] and the feeling [Bb] that it's all a [F] lot of oysters [Bb] but no pearls
_ [Gm] _
[Bb] All at once you look [F] across the [C] crowded room to [Gm] see the way that light [F] attaches to [Bb] a girl
And [F] it's one more [Bb] day up in the [Gm] _ canyons, [F] and it's one more [Bb] night in Hollywood
And it's one more [Gm] night in Hollywood, _ _ [F] and to think you might [Bb] come to [Gm] California
_ [G] To [F] think you should, [Bb] la la la la, [Gm] la la [Bb] la la la, [F] _
[Bb] la la la [Gm] la la, la la la la la, yeah
_ _ [Dm] _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ [Gm] I _ _ _ drove [F] up to Hillside [C] Manor sometime [Gm] after 2am, [Bb] and talked a [F] little while about [Bb] the year
I _ [Gm] _
[Bb] guess the winter makes [F] you laugh a [C] little slower, [Gm] makes you talk a [F] little lower
[Bb] About the things you could not show her, and it's been a long [F] December
[C] And there's reason [Gm] to believe, [Bb] maybe this year will [F] be better [Bb] than the last
I _ [Gm] _
[Bb] can't remember all [F] the times I [C] tried to tell myself [Gm] to hold on to [F] these moments [Bb] as they passed _ _
_ _ [F] And it's one more [Bb] day up in the [Gm]
canyons, _ [F] and it's one more [Bb] night in [Gm] Hollywood
_ _ [F] And it's been so long [Bb] since I've seen [Gm] the ocean, _ [F] I guess I should
[Bb] La la la [Gm] la, la la [Bb] la la, la la [F] la la la, [Bb] la la la [Gm] la la, yeah
La _ [F] _ [Bb] la la [Gm] la, la la [Bb] la la, _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] yeah, yeah
_ [F] _ [Bb] La la [Gm] la la, _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] la la [Gm] la _
_ _ _ [F] la, [Bb] [Gm] la la la la la, [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] yeah, _ _ _ yeah, _ yeah
_ _ Yeah
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