Learn Music: Chorus And The Ring guitar chords - Rem tabs

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  CHORUS & THE RING
  
  By R.E.M.
  >From Reveal
  
  Tab by Chris Lawrence (mustang@islandnet.com)
  
  There seems to be at least 2 guitars, a clean electric panned
  left and an acoustic panned right. They seem to be playing
  slightly different variations on the same chords.
  
  Verse chords (listen to LP for timing):
  
  E--0-----5---
  B--2-----3---
  G--0-----0---
  D--2-----4---
  A--0-----5---
  E------------
  
  Sometimes substitute Dsus2 for the Sugar Mtn D.
  
  Or the electric sometimes plays this chord:
  
  E--5--
  B--3--
  G--2--
  D--0--
  A-----
  E-----
  
  chorus:
  
  E--0---
  B--3---
  G--2---  dont know second chord..
  D--0---
  A------
  E------
  
  bridge:
  
  E--3--              --0--
  B--3--              --0--
  G--0-- for three    --0--
  D--0-- bars, then:  --2-- back into A7/D verse
  A--2--              --2--
  E--3--              --0--
  
  after the 3rd chorus, the electric plays this:
  
  E------0-------5----
  B--------2---3---3--
  G----------0-------- repeat while acoustic plays
  D----2-------------- A7/D rhythm chords...
  A--0----------------
  E-------------------
  
  end on A7.
  
  
  Lyrics:
  
  hey there now young one
  you swing alone, quote the scriptures,
  keep them guessing which bed you crawled from
  
  justify, just deny
  was it fun?
  your time has come
  what have you done?
  what have you done?
  
  that's when the insults start to sting
  you can't remember anything
  the chorus chiming
  every chorus the machine of God
  singin'.
  
  it's the poison that it measures
  brings illuminating vision
  it's the knowing with the wink
  that we expect in Southern women
  
  it's the wolf that knows which trip to dip to save its soul
  it's the octopus that crawled back to the sea.
  
  that's when the insults start to sting
  you can't remember anything
  the chorus chiming
  every chorus the machine of God
  hey.....
  
  hammered, shooting plywood in the backyard
  laughing 'cause the racket makes the blackbird sing
  like the holy terror
  suck the marrow from the bone
  since you're always burning books
  you got the chorus and the ring
  
  that's when the insults start to sting
  you can't remember anything
  the chorus chiming
  every chorus the machine sings.
  
  that's when the insults start to sting
  you can't remember anything
  the chorus chiming
  every chorus the machine sings.
  
  that's when the calibration brittle
  as a stick hits you
  the gold ring in the time museum
  cheaper than a link
  gold ring
  gold ring. 
  
  sing.
  sing.
  sing.
  sing.

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