Cherry Blossom


Tab and Arrangement by: Aaron Simpson (Largebehind) Voicings by: Jack Cookson (Torn Asunder) This is the Horrible Crowes song ‘Cherry Blossom’ from the record “Elsie”. The chords are essentially correct, though with alternate voicings for simplicity. The tab should not be followed 100% as it outlines a basic structure to the intro, take from the tablature and play it your own way around the chords. You can play this song in Standard Tuning, or a whole step down. So following that rhythm the rest of the song goes like this, for the verses use the rhythms above, just use the chord names as markers. The chords in the chorus are played un-arpeggiated, and as barre chords, whereas the chords in the bridge are too un-arpeggiated, although they are in the open form. BEFORE I get anyone criticising my tab for having a C# chord rather than C#m, it's just used to symbolise the octave chord. _____________________________________________________________________ Intro: -B Octave -C# Octave -Aadd9 -F#m7 -Asus2 (x2) B C# Aadd9 F#m7 Asus2 e|-----------------------------------|---5--5----------------0--------------------| B|--0~----0~-------------0--0----|---5--5----2/5/2p0---0--------------------------| G|--4--4--4/-----6----4--6--6----|----x-x----------------2------------------------| D|--x--x----------x-------7--7----|---4--4----0----------2------------------------| A|--2--2-----2/--4--------0--0----|---0-------------------------------------------| E|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------| B C# Aadd9 F#m7 Riff Asus2 e|-----------------------------------|---5--5---------------0---------------------| B|--0~----0~--------------0--0---|---5--5----2/5/2p0--0---------------------------| G|--4--4--4/-----6----4---6--6---|---x-x----------------2-------------------------| D|--x--x----------x--------7--7---|---4--4----0---------2-------------------------| A|--2--2-----2/--4---------0--0---|---0-------------------------------------------| E|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------| Verse 1: B C# Aadd9 I drive this car through the city every night F#m7 Riff Asus2 There's a quiet I never heard before B C# Add9 And lonely, my sister could not describe F#m7 Riff Asus2 All the good things gone wrong Chorus Variant 1: A And there was blood on my teeth F#m From the long winter here A Bones broke in half A A stain on my shirt F#m From a couple hours out with the boys E (Guitar Lick 1) And all good things come to an end B5 C#5 Aadd9 And all memory has left my bones Interlude: F#m7 Riff Asus2 Verse 3: B C# Aadd9 If I drove straight off this bridge F#m7 Riff Asus2 Only God and my baby would know B C# Aadd9 I'm sure she'd be laughing, come during spring F#m7 Riff Asus2 With some fella who just said the right thing Chorus Variant 2: A And there was blood on my teeth F#m From just what they did here A Bones broke in half A A stain on my shirt F#m From a couple hours out with the boys E (Guitar Lick 2) And all good things come to an end Bridge: Dsus4 F#m See all I can do is think about you Bm A And miss all your kisses like the spring E But if I had a sign Dsus4 That one day you'd be mine again, oh no F#m Bm If I could hold you right then A E As the chill in this season sputtered and spit and died with... Chorus Variant 3: A Blood on my teeth F#m From just what they did here A Snow tumbling down on the ground F#m And me stumbling out of my heart A (Diminuendo) Finding cherry blossoms on the hood of my car Guitar Lick 1: e|--5---4---2-------------------------------------------------------| B|--------------5---2-----------------------------------------------| G|----------------------4---2---------------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------| Guitar Lick 2: e|--5---4---2---5---4---2-------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------5---2----------------------------------| G|-----------------------------------4----2-------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------|