R.E.M Automatic Album
Mike.McConnell@noemail.com
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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.
--
Duncan.
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
Contains: Drive, Try Not to Breathe, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Everybody
Hurts, Sweetness Follows, Monty Got a Raw Deal, Ignoreland,
Man on the Moon, Nightswimming, Find the River, First We Take
Manhattan (B-side), Arms of Love (B-Side), Fretless (B-Side)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (B-Side),
"DRIVE"
Riff 1 Riff 2
||----1---1---1---1------ ||----1---1--------------
||-----3---3---------3--- x3, I think, then ||-----3---3---3-3-3-----
||--------------0-------- ||-------------0h2-0-----
||--0---0---0------0----- ||--0---0---0--------3---
||----------------------- ||-----------------------
||----------------------- ||-----------------------
Then it goes into the verse:
Dm G Riff 1 Riff 2 (x4)
Em Em Riff 1 Riff 2
Also, Bucks electric guitar comes in with,
||--5------------------5-------------------
||-----8--6-----5/6-------8--6-------------
||-----------7------7-----------7--5/7--7--
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Intro: Dm | Dm | Dm | Dm (pick through this chord)
Dm
Smack, crack, bushwhacked
G Dm Dm
Tie another one to the racks, baby
Dm
Hey kids, Rock and Roll
G Dm Dm
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
F
What if I ride, what if you walk
Am
What if you rock around the clock
G G
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Em
What if you did, what if you walk
Em Dm Dm
What if you tried to get off, baby
Dm
Hey kids, where are you
G Dm Dm
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Dm
Hey kids, shake a leg
G Dm Dm
maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
F
Maybe you did, maybe you walked
Am
Baby you rocked around the clock
G G
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Em
Maybe I ride, maybe you walk
Em Dm Dm
Maybe I drive to get off, baby
Am
Hey kids, shake a leg
G Dm Dm
maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
Am
Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie
Am Dm Dm
Ollie Ollie in come free, baby
Am
Hey kids, where are you
G Dm Dm Dm Dm
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Dm
Smack, crack, shackalack
G Dm Dm
Tie another one to your back, baby
Dm
Hey kids, Rock and Roll
G Dm Dm
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
F
Maybe you did, maybe you walked
Am
Maybe you rock around the clock
G G
Tick, tock, tick, tock
Em
Maybe I ride, maybe you walk
Em Dm Dm
Maybe I drive to get off, baby
Am
Hey kids, where are you
Am Dm Dm
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Am
Hey kids, Rock and Roll
Am Dm Dm Dm Dm Dm
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby
Ending: Dm (Strum)
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"TRY NOT TO BREATHE"
Intro: (12/8 time: / = an eighth note)
D// Am// C// G//
D// Am// C// G//
D Am
I will try not to breathe,
C G D Am
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees
C G D// Am// C//
These eyes are the eyes of the old,
G D// Am// C// G//
shiver in the cold
D Am
I will try not to breathe,
C G D Am
This decision is mine I have lived a full life
C G Am C
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember
G// D// G// D//
Oh
Am G D G// D//
I need something to fly over my grave again
Am C/////
I need something to breathe
D Am C G
I will try not to burden, I can hold these inside
I will hold my breath until all these shivers subside
Just look in my eyes
I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see
Leave it to memory me, shudder to breathe
Am C G// D// G// D//
I want you to remember
Am (you will never see)
I need something to fly (something to fly)
G D G// D//
Over my grave again (you will never see)
Am C /////
I need something to breathe (something to breathe)
Baby Don't shiver now,
Why do you shiver now (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to fly (something to fly)
Over my grave again (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe
Bridge: Em (One Bar)
Am
Em
Am
Em
I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see
Leave it to memory me, don't dare me to breath
I want you to remember
Am (you will never see)
I need something to fly (something to fly)
G D G// D//
Over my grave again (you will never see)
Am C/////
I need something to breathe (something to breathe)
Baby Don't shiver now,
Why do you shiver now (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe
I want you to remember (I have seen things you will never see)
END: G
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"THE SIDEWINDER SLEEPS TONIGHT"
(intro)
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
The transition to the verses:
C Em
e---------0-----|---------0---------
B-------------1-|-------------0-----
G---------------|-------------------
D-----2---------|-------------------
A-3-------------|-----2-------------
E---------------|-0-----------------
{F, C, and A's are barre chords}
F C
This here is the place where I will stay in
F
There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone
C F
Let it ring a long long long long time
Am C F C
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more, Ohhhhhhh...
F Am C
If I don't pick up, pick up, the sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
C Em {Play using above riff}
Ohhhh.....
F F
There are scratches all around the coin slot
C
Like a heart beat baby trying to wake up
F C
But this machine can only swallow money
you can't lay a patch by computer design
F Am C
Just a lot of stupid, stupid signs
F C
Tell her {yodeled}
F C F
Tell her she can kiss my ass and laugh and say that you were only kidding
Am C
That way she'll know that it was really, really, really, really me me
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am C Em
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
F
Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me
C
Today I need something more sub, stop, sub, sub, substantial
F C
A can of beans or black eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice
F Am C
Candy bar, a fallen star, or a reading from Doctor Suess
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am C Em
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
Bridge:
(*During the bridge, Am and Bm are played as A barres, and the picking
pattern is like this:
Bm Bm Am Am
e---------2------|---------2------|---------0------|---------0------|
B-------------3--|-------------3--|-------------1--|-------------1--|
G----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D-----4----------|-----4----------|-----2----------|-----2----------|
A-2--------------|-2--------------|-0--------------|-0--------------|
E----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
The C below is picked in the same pattern, i.e. A str, D str, e str, B str*)
Bm Am Bm
The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way.
Am
Always had a smile, never reason to pretend,
Bm Am C
Their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream
Em
The sidewinder sleeps on his back
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D G C G Am C Em (*)
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
(*But now this transition thing changes to what we'll call the New Transition*)
C Em
e---------0-----|-0-------0-----|
B-------------1-|-0-------0-----|
G---------------|-0-------0-----|
D-----2---------|-2-------2-----|
A-3-------------|-2-------2-----|
E---------------|-0-------2-----|
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
C Em D
You got a boogie woogie groove on this one
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"EVERYBODY HURTS"
INTRO: D G D G D
G D G D
When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone
G D G
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
E(low)---3---2---0--
Em A Em A Em A D G
Don't let yourself go, cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes
D G D
Sometimes everything is wrong, now it's time to sing along
G D
When your day is night alone (hold on, hold on)
G D
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
G D G
If you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on
E(low)---3---2---0--
Em A Em A Em
Cause everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends
A F# Bm F# Bm
Everybody hurts, don't throw your hands, oh now,
F# Bm C
don't throw your hands
G C Am D
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you're not alone
G D G D
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long
G D G
When you think you've had too much, with this life, to hang on
E(low)---3---2---0--
E A E
Well everybody hurts, sometimes
A E A NC D G
Everybody cries, and everybody hurts, sometimes
D G D G D
But everybody hurts sometimes so hold on, hold on, hold on,
G D G D G
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
D G D G
Everybody hurts
D G D G D G
You are not alone
Picking patten for the chords:
D G
E----------2-----------2-------------3-----------3----------------------------
B--------3---3-------3---3---------3---3-------3---3--------------------------
G------2-------2---2-------2-----0-------0---0--------------------------------
D----0-----------0------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------3-----------3----------------------------------
(Note: the chords below may be picked or strummed)
A E
E----------0-----------0-------------0-----------0----------------------------
B--------2---2-------2---2---------0---0-------0---0--------------------------
G------2-------2---2-------2-----1-------1---1--------------------------------
D----2-----------2------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------2-----------2----------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
D4: E-0-----0-----0-----0--
B---3-----3-----3------
G-----0-----0-----0----
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"SWEETNESS FOLLOWS"
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/rem/automatic_for_the_people_crd.html ]
INTRO: D
D D2
Readying to bury your father and your mother
D D2
What did you think when you lost another
D D2
I used to wonder why did you bother
D D2
Distance from one, one to the other
D D2
Listen here my sister and my brother
D D2
What would you care if you lost the other
D D2
I always wondered why did we bother
D D2
Distance from one, one to the other
Bb C Bb C D D
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
D D2
It's these little things, they can pull you under
D D2
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
D D2
I always knew this all together with thunder
D D2
It's lost to now or never lives
Bb C Bb C D D
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
Bb C Bb C D D
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
D D2
It's these little things, they can pull you under
D D2
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
D D2
Yea, yea we were all together
D D2
Lost to now or never lives
Bb C Bb C D D
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
Bb C Bb C D D
Oh, oh, oh sweetness follows
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"MONTY GOT A RAW DEAL"
(Capo 3rd fret)
Intro: Em G Em G Em G D C Em
Em G Em G
Monty this seems strange to me, the movies had that movie thing
Em G D C Em
But nonsense has a welcome ring and heros don't come easy
Em G Em G
Now nonsense isn't new to me, I know my head I know my feet
Em G D C Em D C Em
But mischief knocked me in the knees so just let go, just let go
Em G Em G
I saw the ocean meet the man, I saw you buried in the sand
Em G D C Em
A friend was there to hold my hand, so walk on by
Em G Em G
So I went walking through the stream, I saw you strung up in a tree
Em G D C Em D C Em
A woman out there said to me, said hold your tongue, hold your tongue
G D C Em G D C Em
you Don't owe me anything, you don't want this sympathy [waste your breath]
G D C D C Em
Don't you waste your breath [waste your breath] for the silver screen
Em G Em G
That nonsense doesn't mean a thing, they tried to bust you in a sting
Em G D C Em
But virtue isn't everything so don't waste time
Em G Em G
Now Here's a rhyme that you must hear, put this on your reel to reel
Em G D C Em D C Em
Mischief through a rotten deal, Monty's laying low, he is laying low
D C Em D C Em
Just let go, just let go
G D C Em G D C Em
you Don't owe me anything, you don't want this sympathy [waste your breath]
G D C G D C Em
Don't you waste your breath [waste your breath] Monty this seems strange to me
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"IGNORELAND"
Riff: e:--------------------------
B:--6--sl--8-----------0---- then play funky open D(xx023x)
G:--5------7--5-sl--7--0----
D:------------5-sl--7-------
(Might also play Dm7 part as 000560 and Dm7+4 part as 000780)
(EADGBe)
Intro: Dm7(557565) Dm7+4(557585) (bend it .. all of it) repeat Riff lots
optional riff after G: D:--5-5-5-4-0---
funk D(xx023x) G(xx0033) A:------------0-
Bastards stole the power from the victims of the us v. them years,
D G
Wrecking all things virtuous and true
D G
The undermining, social, democratic, downhill slide of truth, abysmal
D G
lost, swam, off the precipice into trickle down runoff hope
C(335553) D(557775) C D
They hypnotized the summer, 1979,
C D Dm7 Dm7+4
marched into the capital, pretty duplicitous lookin' at evil, media eventing,
Dm7
heartless, and they were super U.S. citizen, super achiever
Dm7 Dm7+4
mega ultra power dosing relax
Riff
defense, defense, defense, defense, yeah, yeah, yeah [march]
(Riff over and over)
Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea]
{same as above}
D G
The information nation took the clues from all the sound byte glut
D G
1980, 84, 88, 92, too .... too
D G
Hard to be what you can be jump down junk in your energy
D G
Hard to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes
C(335553) D(557775) C D
They can't supply the oil, 1979
C D Dm7 Dm7+4
Calculate the capital, one for the public, ask any ask TV tells a million
Dm7 Dm7+4
lies that they twist down by the report anything that isn't handed
Dm7 Dm7+4
on a presidential spoon
Riff
I'm just put down and frustrated by all this so fuck you man
(Riff over and over)
Fuck 'em [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland
G(355433)
If there wasn't, tell me would he have created them
Bm
Maybe it is true
Bb(113331) D(577455)
But I'm resentful all the same, someone's got to take the blame
{same as above}
D G
I know that this is vitriol, no solution spleen-venting
D G
But I feel better having screamed on you
C(335553) D(557775) C D
They desecrate the winner, 1979
C D Dm7 Dm7+4
capital collaterial, pretty duplicitous lookin' at evil, media eventing,
Dm7
heartless, and they were super U.S. citizen super achiever
Dm7 Dm7+4
mega ultra power doesn't relax
Riff
defense, defense, defense, defense, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Riff over and over)
Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea]
(Riff over and over)
Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea], Ignoreland [Yea, yea, yea]
"This is not a revolution, I did not do the revolution, thank you"
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"STAR ME KITTEN"
Gm Dm Gm Dm Gm Dm Gm
Humans cutting through for the icy ???
Dm Bb C Bb C
Nothing's free but guarantee for a lifetime's lease
Bb C
I've changed the locks
Bb Eb Dm Gm
And you canNOT have one
You, you know the other channel
The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear
I hear them screeching through the door
from our driveway
Hey love, look into your parlor, honest heart
letters there from you, been signed, this love, desire
I've changed the locks,
now at this gesture (question?)
?? ??
Have we lost our minds?
?? ??
Will this never end?
?? Bb Eb Dm Gm
It could depend on your take
You, me, we used to be on fire
If keys are all that stand between
Can I throw in the ring our gasoline
Just fuck me kitten
You are wild, and I am your possession
Nothing's free,
so fuck me kitten
I'm in your possession
so fuck me kitten
------
"MAN ON THE MOON"
Dadd4/add2 x54030
C Dadd4/add2
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-1-------1---1-------1---1---1-|-1-/-3---3---3-------3---3---3-|
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-2-------2---2-------2---2---2-|-2-/-4---4---4-------4---4---4-|
|-3-------3---3-------3---3---3-|-3-/-5---5---5-------5---5---5-|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
C
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-3-\-1---1---1-------1---1---1-|-1-------1---1-------1---1---1-|
|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|-0-------0---0-------0---0---0-|
|-4-\-2---2---2-------2---2---2-|-2-------2---2-------2---2---2-|
|-5-\-3---3---3-------3---3---3-|-3-------3---3-------3---3---3-|
|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
Repeat 4 measures.
VERSE:
C Dadd4/add2 C
Mott the Hoople and the game of Life, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Monopoly, 21, checkers, and chess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Mr. Fred Blasy, and a breakfast mess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
I'll see you in heaven if you make the list, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
PRE-CHORUS:
Am G Am G
Now Andy did you hear about this one, tell me are you locked in the punch?
Am G C D
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
CHORUS:
G Am C(III) Bm G Am D
If you believe they put a man on the moon, (man on the moon)
G Am C(III) Bm Am
If you believe there's nothing up their sleeve and nothing is cruel
VERSE:
C Dadd4/add2 C
Moses went walking with a staff of wood, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Newton got beaned by the apple good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Mr. Charles Darwin had the gall to ask, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
PRE-CHORUS:
Am G Am G
Now Andy did you hear about this one, tell me are you locked in the punch?
Am G C D
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
CHORUS:
G Am C(III) Bm G Am D
If you believe they put a man on the moon, (man on the moon)
G Am C(III) Bm Am
If you believe there's nothing up their sleeve and nothing is cruel
GUITAR SOLO:
Em D Em D
Em D D
Solo (approximation)
------12---|-----------|------12---|-----------|------12---|--------
12-12----12|-----------|12-12----12|-----------|12-12----12|--------
-----------|---11-12-11|-----------|---11-12-11|-----------|---11-12
-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------
-----------|12---------|-----------|12---------|-----------|12------
-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------
VERSE:
C Dadd4/add2 C
Here's a little agit for the never believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Here's a little ghost for the offering, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C Dadd4/add2 C
Mr. andy Kaufman's gone wrestling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
PRE-CHORUS:
Am G Am G
Now Andy did you hear about this one, tell me are you locked in the punch?
Am G C D
Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
CHORUS:
G Am C(III) Bm G Am D
If you believe they put a man on the moon, (man on the moon)
G Am C(III) Bm Am
If you believe there's nothing up their sleeve and nothing is cruel
< GUITAR SOLO >
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
----
"FIND THE RIVER"
-------2---------0----
----3--3------3--3----
Intro Riff: --2----2----0----0---- X 2
0------0--2------2----
----------------------
----------------------
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
