Rem - Rockvill guitar tab

From: Scott A. Yanoff

(DON'T GO BACK TO) ROCKVILLE

{This is one of my favorite REM tunes!}

> {intro : E / / / E / / / E / / / Esus4 E EaddF# E}

E A/Asus4

> Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus

E A/Asus4

> Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough

B A G#m C#m Bm A/Asus4

> Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know

E A

> You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go

E A/Asus4

> Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself

B A G#m C#m

> I know it might sound strange, but I believe

Bm A/Asus4 A A/G#bass A/F#bass

> You'll be coming back before too long

>

E F#m A / Asus

> Don't go back to Rockville

A (B) 3-2-0---0-2--3-2-0--0

> And waste another year riff: (G) ------2------------2

>

{same as above}

> At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend

> I don't care if you're not here with me

> 'Cause it's so much easier to handle

> All my problems if I'm too far out to sea

> But something better happen soon

> Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back

>

E D B A B

> It's not as though I really need you

E F#m B A B

> If you were here I'd only leave you

F#m C#m F#m C#m A

> But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and

B

> That's not how it ought to be

{same as before}

> I know it might sound strange, but I believe

> You'll be coming back before too long