R.E.M
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Album: Automatic For The People
(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
