REM - "Circus Envy" Tablature

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...there is another version of this out there, but here is another...
unknown@bellatlantic.net
REM's circus envy (another version) from Monster
bass tabbed by unknown@bellatlantic.net
corrections would be appreciated
note- each '-' represents a half beat
-a tab with represents a 16th dotted 8th rythmn
g|---3- |
d|0-- - |
a|--3 - |
- this is written in 2/4

verse (come in with the lyrics each time)
(i play the verse riffs with quarter notes, that's what
is tabbed, but it could also be played with eighths to
match what the lead guitar is playing)
__________________ _______
1,3,4,5,7 | 2,6 | 8.
g| ----|----|----|---- |---3- |----|----|
d|* 0--0|----|0--0|-30- *|0-- - *|0--0|-0--|
a|* --3-|----|--3-|---3 *|--3 - *|--3-|--30|
e| ----|----|----|---- |------ |----|----|
^(hold out d)


chorus (i've got my...) (three times)

g| 9976|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---- |
d|* ----|-7--|----|----|----|----|-559|7---|---- *|
a|* ----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---- *|
e| ----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---- |
^hold out ^hold out

bridge (you're mean...)
__________________ ______
1,3 | 2. | 4.
g| ----|----|2-25- |-2-- |0-02- |-0-- |0-02- | (hold a for 5 more
d|* 0-0-|3-3-|--- - |--30 *|--- - |--30 *|--- - | counts)
a|* ----|----|--- - |---- *|--- - |---- *|--- - |
e| ----|----|--- - |---- |--- - |---- |--- - |


bridge2
__________________ ______
1,3,5,7 |2,4,6 | 8.
g| ----|----|2-25- |-2-- |0-02- |-0-- |0-02- | (hold a for 5 more
d|* 0-0-|3-3-|--- - |--30 *|--- - |--30 *|--- - | counts, end on
a|* ----|----|--- - |---- *|--- - |---- *|--- - | openning riff)
e| ----|----|--- - |---- |--- - |---- |--- - |


it goes something like this:
verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge2,
openning riff

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