Just heard the acoustic version of Audioslaveīs Wide awake, and decided to transcribe
here you go:
Acoustic version: performed and written by Chris Cornell,
written after the Hurricane Katrina disaster,
the most political song by Audioslave, so far...
Tuning: ebgdaD
Tabbed by: Christopher Carlsson
Intro: Dm D12 D10
e 1 0 0
b 3 3 3
g 2 2 2
d 0 0 0
a 0 0 0
D 0 3 2
Verse1
Dm D12 Dm
You can a look a hurricane right in the eye
D12 Dm
1200 people dead or left to die
Dm Bb Dm
Follow the leaders, we're in an eye for an eye we'll all be blind
Bb Dm A
Death for murder and this I'm sure in this uncertain time
Chorus
Dm Fmaj7
So come pull the sheet over my eyes
Bb
So I can sleep tonight
Dm C
Despite what I've seen today
Dm Fmaj7 Bb
I find you guilty of a crime, of sleeping at a time
Dm C
When you should have been wide awake
Interlude=intro
Verse2
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/audioslave/wide_awake_crd.html ]
Dm D12 Dm
Down on the road the world is floating by
Dm D12 Dm
The poor and undefended left behind
Bb
While you're somewhere trading lives for oil
Dm A
As if the whole world were blind
Chorus
Dm Fmaj7
So come pull the sheet over my eyes
Bb
So I can sleep tonight
Dm C
Despite what I've seen today
Dm Fmaj7 Bb
I find you guilty of a crime of sleeping at a time
Dm C
When you should have been wide awake
Bb A Dm Cadd9
I found you guilty of a crime, all this I know(?)
Dm C
Come pull the sheet over my eyes
Bb
So I can sleep tonight
Dm C
Despite what I've seen today
Dm Fmaj7 Bb
I find you guilty of the crime of sleeping at a time
Dm C
When you should have been wide awake
Dm C Bb C Dm
Wide awake! Wide awake! Wide awake! Wide awake!
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