ONE CROWDED HOUR – Augie March 6 beats per chord (6/8 feel) * , = barre chord voicings ' = 3 beats ~ = extensions added by organ part (capo at second fret) (refer below) [pick-up] Now should you ex- VERSE-: pect to see something that you hadn't seen in some- body you've known since you were sixteen and if , Love is a bolt from the blue then * * What is a bolt but a glorified screw and that , , , Doesn't hold nothing to-gether far from these VERSE-: Nonsense bars and their nowhere music it's Making me sick and I know it's making you sick there's , Nothing there it's like eating air it's like * * Drinking gin with nothing else in and , , , That doesn't hold me to-gether but for CHORUS: ~ ~ One crowded hour you were the only one in the room I ~ , * * Sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom I * Thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June but ' ' One crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin now I know you like VERSE-: Your boys who take their medicine from the Bowl with a silver spoon who , Run away with the dish and scale the fish by * * The silvery light of the moon who were VERSE-: * Taught from the womb to be-lieve till the tomb that as Far as their bleeding eyes see is a Pleasure pen meant for them build-ed and rent for them ' ' Not for the likes of me no not for the , , , Likes of you and me____ and for CHORUS: ~ ~ One crowded hour you were the only one in the room and I ~ , * * Sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom I * Thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June but ' ' One crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin oh but the BRIDGE: ' ' Green-eyed harpy of the salt land__ she (F#-bass) ' ' Takes in-to hers my hand__ and she says ' ' (F#-bass) Boy I know you're lying oh but then so am I and to this I said oh SOLO: (short chorus) Well , *(G-bass) * * ' ' Now VERSE-: ~ Put me in a cage full of lions I'll learn to speak ~ Lion in fact I know the language , Well I picked it up while I was *(G-bass) * Versing myself in the languages they speak in VERSE-: Hell that night that silence gave birth to a baby they , Took it away to her silent dismay and they * * Raised it to be a lady now she , , ,(F#-bass) Can't keep her mouth shut__ and for CHORUS: ~ ~ One crowded hour you were the only one in the room and I , *(G-bass) * Sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom I * Thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June but ' ' One crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin and yes that CHORUS-VARIATION: ~ ~ One crowded hour you were the only one in the room and I ~ , Played a few songs for those bumps in the night in fact *(G-bass) * I played this very tune but you said * What is this six string-ed instrument but an adolescent loom__ and ' ' One crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin__ (tags may have been edited on the video source) ================================================================================ In the promotional video Glenn can clearly be seen playing chords in the key of G while song is pitched in the key of A. The occasional appearance of open strings in the arpeggios (G in Bm, B in Am and C) confirm the first position voicings. To match the recording either tune up a whole step or use a capo at the second fret. Tuning up an acoustic guitar is not recommended. CHORDS: , * * , , ......seventh and third E|--3---0---2---0---2---7----8---3---3---5---7---0---0--| are not played by B|--0---1---3---1---3---8----8---3---5---7---7---0---0--| the guitar but the G|--0---2---4---0---2---9----9---4---5---7---8---0---2--| ensemble harmony D|--0---2---4---2---0---9----10--5---5---7---9---2---2--| is ninth not sus2 A|--2---0---2---3-------7----10--5---3---5---9---2---0--| E|--3------------------------8---3---3---5---7---0------| Barre chord voicings: * root on 6th-string , root on 5th-string Organ plays a G-note drone through several chords. These voicings mimic the ensemble harmony: ~ ~ ~ / Dadd11 E|--0------2---------2-----3--| B|--1------0---------3-----0--| G|--0------0---------0-----2--| D|--2------0---------0-----2--| A|--0------2---------0-----0--| E|----------------------------| The chord progression is not consistent hence the labelling of verses A B C D.