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Rem - Ebow The Letter guitar tab

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E-Bow the Letter (Last updated: 10/17/96)

Ok...First the lyrics...Then the chords...We have 7 different versions of

this song in this file. I'll try and see which is the most accurate. - chris)

Lyrics

Source: From the premiere of the cc-video on MTV (August 14)

1-Look up, what do you see?

All of you and all of me

Fluorescent and starry

Some of them, they surprise

The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m.

This letter

Fields of poppies, little pearls

All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed

Each and every one a little scary

I said your name

I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars

Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras

Dreaming of Maria Callas

Whoever she is

This fame thing, I don't get it

I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it

Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves

I can take you far

This star thing, I don't get it

2-I'll take you over, there

I'll take you over, there

Aluminum, tastes like fear

Adrenaline, it pulls us near

I'll take you over

It tastes like fear, there

I'll take you over

Will you live to 83?

Will you ever welcome me?

Will you show me something that nobody else has seen?

Smoke it, drink

Here comes the flood

Anything to thin the blood

These corrosives do their magic slowly and sweet

Phone, eat it, drink

Just another chink

Cuts and dents, they catch the light

Aluminum, the weakest link

I don't want to disappoint you

I'm not here to anoint you

I would lick your feet

But is that sickest move?

I wear my own crown and sadness and sorrow

And who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange?

My loss, and here we go again

(repeat 2)

(repeat 1)

I can't look it in the eyes

Seconal, spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene

Cherry-flavored neck and collar

I can smell the sorrow on your breath

The sweat, the victory and sorrow

The smell of fear, I got it

(rpt 2, 2...)

Pulls us near

Tastes like fear..

Nearer, nearer

over, over, over, over

Yeah, look over

I'll take you there, oh, yeah

I'll take you there

Oh, over

I'll take you there

Over, let me

I'll take you there..

There, there, baby, yeah

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intro and bridge: G to Em

all verses: C G Em Bm, then C G Em

which then launches into

the chorus of : D to Em

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(Source: Greg Allum)

Intro--

G Eminor7th repeated 4x

(the G is strummed twice and then picked on the E and B strings with the G

becoming a G6)

(The Em7 Is picked on the E and B strings after 2 strums as well)

Verse

C G Em Bm C G Em Em repeated 2x

(The rhythm is sort of two strums on each chord)

Chorus---

D Em repeated 4 x

(the riff on the D is below)

B--------------3-----2---------------

G-------------------------2---------2-----4

D------------------------------4

Thats it...except for where it goes quiet and that bit is the intro repeat!

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I have just heard REM'S New single "E-Bow the letter" on the radio and grabbed

my guitar and started transcribing it, seems pretty easy so I thought some

might like the Guitar chords for it so here they are:-

"E-Bow the letter" by REM from their Forthcoming album "Adventures in Hi-Fi"

Transcribed by Simon Darby (chrisd@atlas.co.uk)

This is all my own work If there are any mistakes send me some e-mail and give

me the corrections

But I am pretty sure these are right well 99% surte any way here goes

Intro

D Dsus4 Dsus2 Em Em7

(Played in a moderate flow)

Verse's

C Cadd(9) G Em Em7

(Alternative picking used, Just pick through chords)

Chorus

D Dsus4 Em Em7

Chords used:-

Cadd(9) Dsus4 Dsus2 Em7

e 0 3 0

b 3 3 3

g 0 2 0

d 2 0 2

a 3 x 2

E x x 0

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E-Bow the Letter (from: anonymous)

"D": 2:-3--3-2-0-----0

3:-2--------0-2

4:-0---

peter doesn't play it like this every single time - he'll play around

with it a lot.

C:x32010

Dsus2:xx0230

Bm:x24430

Em:x79987

note: during the verses, pick through the chords - it sounds better.

also note: if you're confused about the verse chords, each chord gets 2 beats

C

Look up, and what do you see?

Dsus2

all of you and all of me

Bm Em

cresents, stars, summer lily surprise

Dsus2 Bm

the bus driver went to write those four Ms - letter

C

I feel to pop these little pearls

D Bm

all the boys and all the girls

Em C D

street-toothed, each and every one of them a little scared

Bm

I said your name

C

I wore it like a badgered teenage film star:

D Bm

Taz Forrest, Jerry Mash, tenfold tiaras

Em C D Bm

dreaming of Maria Callas, wherever she is

the same thing

C

I don't get it

D

I wrapped my hand in plastic

Bm

to try to look through that maybelline eyes

Em

girls and boys and others

C D

to take the fall

Bm

this dark thing

I don't get it

(Chorus): "D" (for four beats) Em (for 2) G (for 2)

"D" ( " ) Em (for 2)

"I'll take you over, I'll take you there"

"D"

aluminum, tastes like fear

Em G

adrenaline, pulls us near

"D" Em

tastes like fear

(same chords as above)

will you live to 83?

will you ever welcome me?

will you show me something that noboby else has seen

snuck out, drink, here comes the flood

anything within the blood

these corrosives do their magic so lame, and sweet

from EF drink, it's just another chink

cut too dense they catch the light

aluminum, will you sink?

I don't want to disappoint you, I'm not

here to anoint you

I would lick your pupils

at the sickest move, I'd wear my own crown

with sadness and sorrow and who'd have thought tomorrow

would be so strange

my loss, here we go again

"I'll take you over, I'll take you there"

aluminum tastes like fear

adrenaline, pulls us near

tastes like fear

pulls us near

bridge: (4 beats per chord) G Em (3x)

look up

and what do you see all of you and all of me

fussing and starring summing down a late surprise

i can't look it in the eye

sickened of spanish fly

it's okay, i see a cherry-flavoured neckered car

i can smell the salt on your breath

the sweat, victory, salt, the smell thing

i've got it

"i can't move you over"

aluminum, tastes like fear,

adrenaline, pulls us near...

that's it. on the verse immediately after the bridge,

peter uses an e-bow, and here's what he does:

a--3--5--2--7--5--3--5--2

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Um, I think I may have figured out some of E-bow to

help you out here..

The intro goes:

G Em

The chorus:

e-----------------

B--3-2------------

G------2---2-4----

D--------4--------

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intro:

eadgbE

G Em7 (020000)

verse:

C G Em Bm C G Em Em (2x)

(2 beats per chord)

chorus:

"D" Em (4x)

"D": b-3-2

g-----2---2-4

d-------4

bridge:

see intro

E-Bow the Letter from New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Intro & Bridge :

G Em do this three times

Verse :

C G Em Bm C G Em The last Em is played for twice the time of the rest

Chorus

D Em G Here the D is played for twice the time of the rest

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