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Just my take on this tab with corrections from version 1 and 2.. Used the video of
Carlile at Workplay in Birmingham, AL, 9/24/07 for reference.
Capo 7th fret
Brandi Carlile - How These Days Grow Long
Intro: Em Am D G C D Em
Verse 1:
Em Am D
I left home a long, long time ago
G C
with a tin can for the road
Am D Dsus D
with a suitcase and some songs
Em Am D
Chasing miles through the nighttime making tracks
G C Am DDsus D
with no time for looking back to the place where I belong
Chorus:
Em C G C D
How these days grow long, but I'm on my way back home
G C
It's been hard to be away
Em C G C
How I miss you and I just wanna kiss you
D G C D
D
and I'm gonna love you until my dying days
Em D C D Em
How these days grow long
Verse 2
Em Am D
When your sad, you know I wish I could be there
G C Am DDsus D
to make your sorrows disappear and set your troubles free
Em Am D
It's not fair for me to be this far from you
G C Am D
D
but I promise to stay true where ever I might be
Chours:
Em C G C D
Times keeps burning on wheels keep on turning sometimes
G C
Feel I'm wasting my days
Em C G C
And how I miss you and I just wanna kiss you
D G C D Dsus D
and I'm gonna love you til my dying days
Em D C D Em
How these days grow long
Em C D Dsus D
Time keeps burning on
Em D C D Em Am
G C D Em
How these days grow long
Verse 3:
Em Am D
Now I'm lost in a sea of sunken dreams
G C
While the sound of drunken screams
Am Em
Echoes in the night
Em Am D
But I know all of this will come to past
G C
and I'll be with you at last
Am Em
forever by your side
Chorus:
(Brandi and the twins usually just sing this(no guitar))::
How these days grow long but I'm on my way back home
It's been hard to be away
and how I miss you and I just wanna kiss you
and I'm gonna love you until my dying days
Em C G C D
Time keeps burning on wheels keep on turning sometimes
G C
feel I'm wasting my days
Em C G C
How I miss you and I just wanna kiss you
D G C D
D
and I'm gonna love you until my dying days
Em D C D Em
How these days grow long
Em C D
Time keeps burning on
Em D C D Em Am
G C D Em
How these days grow long