REM - "Automatic Album (Chords)" Tablature

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 16:47:16 GMT
Sender: djb@maths.bath.ac.uk

Hi, I downloaded this file a while ago, and found some seriously wrong
chords in Try Not To Breathe and Everybody Hurts, so here's the
corrected file in its entirety.

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Duncan.

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From: padd0008@gold.tc.umn.edu

From: ssp5688@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (BANANAFISH


CHORUS: Play 3 times.

Em

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"NIGHTSWIMMING"

Intro....
G B(note)-C
G B(note)-D

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night...
G B(note)-C D
G B(note)-C A C D

(over and over again for the whole song... the two lines above are played
for each line)


Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard taken years ago
Turn around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals a picture and a verse
Still It's so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
i'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago
The fear of getting caught
The recklessness in water
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by every day

Nightswimming remembering that night
September's coming soon
i'm pining for the moon
and what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun
A bright type could never drawn
could not describe, Nightswimming

You I thought I knew you, you I cannot judge,
you I thought you knew me, this one laughing quietly, underneath my breath
Nightswimming

The photograph reflects every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night

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"FIND THE RIVER"


-------2---------0----
----3--3------3--3----
Intro Riff: --2----2----0----0---- X 2
0------0--2------2----
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D F A7su4 G D F A7sus4


D F A7sus4 G
Hey now little speedy head the read on the speedometer says
D F A7sus4
you have to go the task in the city
D F
Where people drown and people serve
A7sus4 G D F A7sus4
Don't be shy, your just deserve is only just light years to go

G A D Em
Me my thoughts are flowers strewn, an ocean storm may bury them
G A D (Dsus)
I have got to leave to find my way
G A D Em
Watch the road and memorize this life that passed before my eyes
G A D
and nothing is going my way


D F A7sus4 G D F A7sus4


D F A7sus4 G
The ocean is the river's goal, the need to leave the water knows
D F A7sus4
We're closer now, but light years to go
G A D Em
I have got to find the river, Bergamot and bed of rose
G A D
Run through my head and far away
G A D Em
Leave the road and memorize this life that passed before my eyes
G A D
and nothing is going my way


REPEAT INTRO RIFF


D F A7sus4 G
There's no one left to take the lead, but I'll tell you and you can see
D F A7sus4
We're closer now and light years to go
D F A7sus4 G
Pick up here and chase the ride, river empties to the tide
D F A7sus4
Fall into the ocean

G A D Em
River to the ocean goes a fortune for the undertow
G A D
None of this is going my way
G A D Em
There is nothing left to grow but ginger, mint, and indigo
G A D
Coriander stem and rows of hay
G A D Em
Strength and courage overrides, these privileged and weary eye
G A D
River poets search naivete
G A D Em
Pick up here and chase the ride, the river empties to the tide
G A D
All of this is coming your way


REPEAT INTRO RIFF

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FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN (Leonard Cohen) [B-Side to "Drive"]

Dm Am
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Dm Am
For trying to change the system from within
Dm Am
I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them
G F E Am
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Dm Am
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
Dm Am
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
Dm Am
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
G F E Am
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

C G F
I'd really like to live beside you, baby
C Am
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
C Am
But you see that line there moving through the station
G F E Am
I told you I told you I told you I was one of those

Dm Am
You loved me as a loser but now your worried that I just might win
Dm Am
You know the way to stop me but you don't have the discipline
Dm Am
How many nights I prayed for this: to let my work begin
G F E Am
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Dm Am
I don't like your fashion business, mister
Dm Am
I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
Dm Am
I don't like what happened to your sister
G F E Am
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin (chorus)

Dm Am
And I thank you for those items that you sent me
Dm Am
The monkey end the plywood violin
Dm Am
I practiced every night and now I'm ready
G F E Am
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

Dm Am
Remember me, I used to live for music
Dm Am
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
Dm Am
It's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
G F E Am
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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"Arms Of Love" (Robin Hitchcock) [B-Side to "Man on the Moon"]

I've tried to lay out the rythym as graphically as possible.

(d = down, ^ = up)
d d ^ ^ d ^ d d ^ ^ d ^ d d ^ ^ d d d ^ ^ d ^
G C G C G
(intro, same as first sung line)
G C G C G
Maybe tonight you're achin'
G F C C
For someone you're dreamin' of
D D C C
Tomorrow you'll be wakin Into the
D D/G* C C
Arms, into the arms of Love

(*You could use either a D, D/G, or a G here, whatever suits you best.)

Maybe tonight you're cryin
Like a poor wounded dove
Tell me you'll soon be flying
Into the Arms, into the arms of love

Maybe tonight you're takin
You couldn't get enough
Honey you'll soon be wakin'
Into the Arms, into the arms of Love

[Interlude, use same three lines of chords that run through the sung
verse.]

Maybe the world is falling
It wasn't strong enough
Tell me you'll soon be crawling
Into the Arms, into the arms of Love
(repeat to end)

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"FRETLESS" [B-Side to "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"]

Verses:
Chords: Em/Bm (?) (I don't think its a chord, just some random Peter stuff)/G
alternate w/:Em/Bm (?)/G/Bm (?)
tab goes like this:

E - - 0 - - 2 - - 3 - - 2 - - 2 -
B - 0 - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0
G 0 - - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - -

alternate with:

E - - 0 - - 2 - - 3 - - 3 - - 3 -
B - 0 - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0
G 0 - - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - -


Prechorus (if that is what it is): ["They come and they come..."]
B/A/D/E

Chorus: ["Don't talk to me..."]
chords: G/F/Em
tab goes like this:

E - - - 3 - - 3
B - 0 - - 0 - -
G 0 - 0 - - 0 -

E - - - 1 - - 1
B - 1 - - 1 - -
G 2 - 2 - - 2 -

E - - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0
B - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - -
G 0 - 0 - - 0 - - 0 - - 0 -

"FRETLESS"

He's got his work, and she comes easy
They each come around when the other is gone
Me, I think I got stuck somewhere in between
I wouldn't confide in the prodigal son,
The dye has been cast, the battle is won
The bullets were blanks, a double locked gun
I couldn't admit to a minute of fun.

And they come and they come and they come
I accept it with a gentle tongue
No words spoken, no ? kept

Take it, stomp twice, ring bell
Tether that ringing, freeze
Enough with the rifle and talk already
We all know what it means
Take this conversation to your great divide
I can only swallow what I ate,
And I don't hate him, and I don't hate her.

And they come and they come and they come
I accept it with a gentle tongue
No heart broken, no ? kept

Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone

Reach for each other before you leave
Reach peace, P-E-A-C-E
Don't threaten me with a gentle tease,
Don't threaten me with angry
Please please please don't try to tell me what I am

And they come and they come and they come
I accept it with a gentle tongue
No words spoken, no ? except

Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone
Don't talk to me about being alone....

Ends on Em.

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"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (B-Side to "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight")

G C G D
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.
G C G D
In the village, the peaceful village, the people sleep tonight.
G C G
Aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away,
D
aweem away, aweem away







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