Radiohead - How Can You Be Sure (chords) guitar tab

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 11:46:16 -0600

From: Chris Brown

Subject: CRD: r/radiohead/how_can_you_be_sure.crd

How can you be sure? by Radiohead

From the "High & Dry" CD single... played at a deliberate, medium tempo.

The bass actually echoes most of the melody in the song, so it can sound a

little wack on an acoustic guitar. Try walking the E up to the A on the

"good things and bad" parts to fill things out a little bit.

Verse:

E B E A2-A

Seen all good things and bad

E B E A2

running down the hill

E B E A

All so battered and brought to the

E B E A2

ground

E B E A2-A

I am hungry again

E B E A2

I am drunk again

E B E A

With all the money I owe to my

E B E

friends

Pre-chorus:

A G#m F#m E5

When I'm like this

B A G#m F#m

How can you be smiling, saying

Chorus (inhale deeply!):

E B E A

Ho-o-w can you be sure?

E B E A

Ho-o-w can you be sure?

Verse:

If you walk out that door, will I see you again

if so much of me lies in your eyes?

I am hungry again, I am drunk again

With all the money I owe to my friends

Pre-Chorus

Chorus x2

Chorus (instrumental)

Chorus w/ "I don^Òt want you anymore" vocals overdubbed

end

Notes on the chords:

I'm not sure what to call the B that I hear in the song, but I think it

might be a B5. It's fingered thusly; essentially just a power chord.

e--X---

B--0---

G--4---

D--4---

A--2---

E--X---

Also, the A2-A is accomplished through a hammer-on, like so:

e--0---2-2

B--0---0h2

G--2---2-2

D--2---2-2

A--0---0-0

E--0---0-0

I think the G#m employed in the chorus is played with some open strings:

e--0

B--0

G--4

D--6

A--6

E--x

And finally, the E5 in the chorus is played like an open D, but barred up 2

frets (kinda like how you might play an Eb)

e--x

B--5

G--4

D--2

A--2

E--0

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