WISEBLOOD
COUNTING CROWS
Chords in brackets do not last a full bar.
A - D - F#m - D
A - D - F#m - (E) - D
A - D - A - D
A - D - D - E
(E) A D F#m D
I'm an outcast that no one can save anymore
A D F#m (E) D
and the days of my youth, have all long gone by
A D A D
I was the kind of boy the devil would offer a smoke or a drink to
A D F#m D A - D - A - D
or a ride downtown to some God forsaken land
A D F#m (E) D
One Sunday morning at dawn you know they baptized my soul
A D F#m (E) D
but they held me down so long Christ I almost drowned
A D
Yeah I was the kind of boy who never learned to smile
A D
so I kicked and I screamed
A D F#m (E) D
'till I tore myself loose from all these great big hands Oh Yeah
A D A D
| e | 9p7 7 |
| B | 10 10 10 10 12 10 7 10 9 9\ |
| G | 9/11 11 |
| D | |
| A | |
| E | |
E G D A
Wiseblood knows I walk the way the wind blows
A D A D
| e | |
| B | 9b11 |
| G | |
| D | 7 7 7 7 9 9b11r9b11 11r9 9p7 |
| A | 7h9 9 |
| E | |
E G D A
Wiseblood hears grace whisper right behind
Chords are A - D repeated.
///Keep B string bent///
| e | 12 12 12 |
| B | 12b14 14 14 14r12 10h12 10 10 |
| G | |
| D | |
| A | |
| E | |
| e | |
| B | 12b14 12b14 12b14 |
| G | 14 12 14^^^ 14 12 12 |
| D | 14 13p12 10 12 10 10 12 |
| A | 12 |
| E | |
| e | |
| B | |
| G | |
| D | 10 12b14r12 10 12 12 10 10 10b12 7 9b |
| A | 10/12 12 12 7/9 |
| E | |
| e | |
| B | 10 10 10 |
| G | |
| D | 11 9 9b11 11 9 9b11 11 9\7 |
| A | |
| E | |
| e | 17 |
| B | /14 14 15 17 15 17 15 17 17b19 19 17b19r17 |
| G | 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 19 18 16 14 |
| D | |
| A | |
| E | |
A D F#m D
My mommma, she turned around and said
A D F#m(hold) D
"Little boy you better wake up....cause your a walking dead"
A D A D
Oh she was the kind a girl who never touched a smoke or a drink
A D F#m D A
she smoldered like an empty church left to burn in the wind
A - D - A - D
| e | |
| B | 12b14 14 14 14 14p12 12 |
| G | 14 11 14 14 14 |
| D | |
| A | |
| E | |
E G D A
Wiseblood knows I walk the way the wind blows
A - D - A - D
| e | |
| B | 15b17 17 17 17 17 17r15\14\10 12 10 |
| G | |
| D | |
| A | |
| E | |
E G D A
Wiseblood hears grace whisper right behind
(I cant hear this fill clearly enough, sorry)
A - D
I said Wiseblood,no x8
E G D A
Wiseblood knows I walk the way the wind blows
| e | 12 12 12 |
| B | 12b14 14 14 14r12 10 |
| G | |
| D | |
| A | |
| E | |
E G D A
Wiseblood hears grace whisper right behind
A - D - E - A (End on A)