Biography:
R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style, Stipe's distinctive vocal quality and obscure lyrics, Mills's melodic basslines and backing vocals, and Berry's tight, economical style of drumming.
R.E.M. released its first single—"Radio Free Europe"—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone.
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- Everybody Hurts
- Imitation Of Life
- It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
- Losing My Religion
- Man On The Moon
- Nightswimming
- Shiny Happy People
- Stand
- The One I Love
- 9
- Academy Fight Song
- Accelerate
- After Hours
- Aftermath
- Ages Of You
- All The Right Friends
- All The Way To Reno
- Arms Of Love
- Around The Sun
- Ascent Of Man
- At My Most Beautiful
- At My Most Beutiful
- Automatic
- Automatic For The People
- Baby I
- Bad Day
- Bandwagon
- Bang And Blame
- Be Mine
- Beat A Drum
- Begin The Begin
- Belong
- Berlin
- Binky The Doormat
- Blue
- Boy In The Well
- Burning Down
- Cant Get There From Here
- Carnival Of Sorts
- Catapult
- Chronic Town
- Circus Envy
- Country Feedback
- Crazy
- Crush With Eyeliner
- Cuyahoga
- Dark Globe
- Daysleeper
- Dead Letter Office
- Departure
- Devil Rides Backwards
- Diminished
- Disappear
- Discoverer
- Disturbance At The Heron House
- Document
- Dont Go Back To Rockville
- Dream
- Drive
- Driver 8
- E Bow The Letter
- Ebow The Letter
- Electrolite
- Electron Blue
- End Of The World
- Every Day Is Yours To Win
- Exhuming
- Exhuming Mccarthy
- Fables
- Fall On Me
- Falls To Climb
- Feeling Gravitys Pull
- Femme Fatale
- Final Straw
- Find The River
- Finest Work Song
- Finest Worksong
- Fireplace
- First We Take Manhattan
- Fretless
- Friendly Friendly World
- Funtime
- Gardening At Night
- Get Up
- Good King Wenceslas
- Green
- Green Grow The Rushes Go
- Ha We Get Paid For It
- Hairshirt
- Half A World Away
- Hallelujah
- Harborcoat
- Have You Ever Seen The Rain
- Hello In There
- High Speed Train
- Hollow Man
- Houston
- I Believe
- I Belong To You
- I Dont Sleep I Dream
- I Took Your Name
- Ignoreland
- Ill Take The Rain
- In Time The Best Of Rem 1988
- It Happened Today
- Its A Free World Baby
- Its The End Of The World As We Know It
- Ive Been High
- Just A Touch
- Kerouac No 4
- King Of Birds
- King Of Comedy
- King Of The Road
- Last Date
- Laughing
- Leaving New York
- Let Me In
- Letter Never Sent
- Life And How To Live It
- Lifes Rich Pageant
- Little America
- Live At The Olympia
- Living Well Is The Best Revenge
- Lotus
- Low
- Make It All Okay
- Man
- Mandolin Strum
- Maps And Legends
- Me In Honey
- Me Marlon Brando Marlon Brando And I
- Million
- Mine Smell Like Honey
- Monster
- Monty Got A Raw Deal
- Moon River
- Moral Kiosk
- Mr Richards
- Murmur
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Near Wild Heaven
- New Adventures In Hi
- New Orleans Instrumental No 2
- New Test Leper
- Oh My Heart
- Orange Crush
- Out Of Time
- Out Of Time Instrumental 1
- Outsiders
- P S A
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Parakeet
- Perfect Circle
- Photograph
- Pilfrimage
- Pop Song
- Pop Song 8
- Pretty Persuasion
- Radio Free Europe
- Radio Song
- Reveal
- Romance
- Sad Professor
- Saturn Return
- Second Guessing
- Selingkar Kasih
- Shaking Through
- Sitting Still
- Skank
- So Central Rain
- So Fast So Numb
- Star 6
- Star 69
- Star Me Kitten
- Strange
- Strange Currencies
- Stumble
- Sugar Cane
- Summer Turns To High
- Superman
- Supernatural Superserious
- Suspicion
- Swan Swan H
- Sweetness Follows
- Tainted Obligations
- Talk About The Passion
- Texarkana
- That Beat
- The Apologist
- The Great Beyond
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- The Wall Of Death
- The Wrong Child
- Theme From Two Steps Onward
- There She Goes Again
- Tongue
- Try Not To Breath
- Try Not To Breathe
- Turn You Inside Out
- Turn You Inside
- Uberlin
- Until The Day Is Done
- Untitled
- Wake Up Bomb
- Walk Unafraid
- Wall Of Death
- We All Go Back To Where We Belong
- We Walk
- Wendell Gee
- West Of The Fields
- What If We Give It Away
- Whats The Frequency Kenneth
- Wichita Lineman
- Windout
- Winged Mammal Theme
- World Leader Pretend
- You
- You Are The Everything
- Youre In The Air
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SWAN SWAN H
The Rhythm guitar is played on a 12 - string while the other part is
played on a regular 6 - string.
This song is in 6/8 time. In the intro, Peter plays an Am chord. On
beat four, he lifts up his finger on the second fret of the D string
then hammers it right back on. Its an old trick but one of my
favorites. He also does it on the Dm chord when it's played for a
whole 6 beats - except of course, he lifts his finger off of the G
string.
Am Dm G
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Am Dm
Hurrah, we are all free now
Am Dm G
What noisy cats are we
Am Dm
Girl and dog he bore his cross
Am Dm G
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Am Dm
Hurrah, we are all free now
Am Dm G Am
A long, low time ago, people talk to me
Em F
Johnny Reb what's the price of fans
Em F
Forty a piece or three for one dollar?
Em F
Hey captain don't you want to buy
Em C G
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
{same as first verse}
Night wings, her hair chains,
Here's your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times,
I walked that path a hundred ninety,
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
G Bm
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
C D
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
G Bm C C/B
Marching feet, Johnny Reb, what's the price of heroes?
{Em to F progression}
Six in one, half dozen the other,
Tell that to the captain's mother,
Hey captain don't you want to buy,
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
Night wings, her hair chains
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Hurrah, we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme,
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
{end on Am}
Here's what goes on in the background:
#1:
Swan Swan...
Am Dm G Am Dm
(D)--------0-2-|-0---|-----|-------0-2-|-0-|
(A)-0-2-3------|---0-|-----|-0-2-3-----|---| Back over
(E)------------|-----|-3---|-----------|---|
#2:
Johnny rep...
Em F Em F
(A)-2---0-2-|-3-0---|-2---0-2-|-3-|
(E)---3-----|-----1-|---3-----|---|
When switching from #1 to #2 or #3 do this
...some bones, chains...
Em F Em Am
(A)-2---0-2-|-3--|-2---|-0-2-3-|
(E)---3-----|----|-----|-------| ... 1st time
| G D C D
This on (G)-----|-0-0-0-----|---------|---------|---------|
A Pistol... (D)---0-|-------4-2-|-4-2-0-0-|---------|-0-0-2-4-|
(#3) (A)-----|-----------|---------|-3-3-2-3-|---------|
|2nd time
|D Em
(D) |-0-0-0-|Six.--..
(A) |--------------..
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
#
# For the latest collection of R.E.M. chords & tab, go to
# http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/rem/
#
# If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them
# to [email protected]
#
SWAN SWAN H
The Rhythm guitar is played on a 12 - string while the other part is
played on a regular 6 - string.
This song is in 6/8 time. In the intro, Peter plays an Am chord. On
beat four, he lifts up his finger on the second fret of the D string
then hammers it right back on. Its an old trick but one of my
favorites. He also does it on the Dm chord when it's played for a
whole 6 beats - except of course, he lifts his finger off of the G
string.
Am Dm G
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Am Dm
Hurrah, we are all free now
Am Dm G
What noisy cats are we
Am Dm
Girl and dog he bore his cross
Am Dm G
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Am Dm
Hurrah, we are all free now
Am Dm G Am
A long, low time ago, people talk to me
Em F
Johnny Reb what's the price of fans
Em F
Forty a piece or three for one dollar?
Em F
Hey captain don't you want to buy
Em C G
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
{same as first verse}
Night wings, her hair chains,
Here's your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times,
I walked that path a hundred ninety,
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
G Bm
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
C D
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
G Bm C C/B
Marching feet, Johnny Reb, what's the price of heroes?
{Em to F progression}
Six in one, half dozen the other,
Tell that to the captain's mother,
Hey captain don't you want to buy,
Some bone chains and toothpicks?
Night wings, her hair chains
Swan, swan, hummingbird
Hurrah, we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme,
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
{end on Am}
Here's what goes on in the background:
#1:
Swan Swan...
Am Dm G Am Dm
(D)--------0-2-|-0---|-----|-------0-2-|-0-|
(A)-0-2-3------|---0-|-----|-0-2-3-----|---| Back over
(E)------------|-----|-3---|-----------|---|
#2:
Johnny rep...
Em F Em F
(A)-2---0-2-|-3-0---|-2---0-2-|-3-|
(E)---3-----|-----1-|---3-----|---|
When switching from #1 to #2 or #3 do this
...some bones, chains...
Em F Em Am
(A)-2---0-2-|-3--|-2---|-0-2-3-|
(E)---3-----|----|-----|-------| ... 1st time
| G D C D
This on (G)-----|-0-0-0-----|---------|---------|---------|
A Pistol... (D)---0-|-------4-2-|-4-2-0-0-|---------|-0-0-2-4-|
(#3) (A)-----|-----------|---------|-3-3-2-3-|---------|
|2nd time
|D Em
(D) |-0-0-0-|Six.--..
(A) |--------------..
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