R.E.M. fue una influyente banda estadounidense surgida en 1980 en el Estado de Georgia (EE.UU.), pionera del denominado rock alternativo e inspiración de bandas de desarrollo posterior.
En la década de los 70, plena era punk, un estudiante de arte llamado Michael Stipe conoce a un coleccionista de LP´s de los años 60 llamado Peter Buck. Ambos se unen a dos músicos experimentados, Mike Mills y Bill Berry, y comienzan a tocar en pubs locales en la ciudad de Athens.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
G: 320033 Cadd9: x32033 Aadd9: x02033 (simply remove top 3 on Cadd9) D: xx0232
[Intro]
GC9 GD
[Verse 1]
GC9D Night - swimming... GC9A9* deserves a quiet night. C9D The.. GC9D photograph on the dashboard, GC9A9* taken years ago, C9D turned around backwards so the windshield shows. GC9D Every streetlight reveals the GC9A9* picture in re-verse. C9D Still it's so much clearer. GC9D I forgot my shirt at the GC9A9* water's edge. The moon is low to- C9D -night.
[Instrumental]
GC9 GD
[Verse 2]
GC9D Night - swimming... GC9A9* deserves a quiet night. I’m C9D not sure all these people under- GC9D -stand. It’s not like years GC9A9* ago. The fear of getting C9D caught, of recklessness and GC9D water. They cannot see me GC9A9* naked. These things they go C9D away, replaced by every(day).
[Verse 3]
GC9D -day. Night - swimming... GC9A9* remembering that night. Sep- C9D -tember's coming soon. I'm GC9D pining for the moon. And GC9A9* what if there were two side by C9D side in orbit around the fairest GC9D sun? That bright, tight for- GC9A9* -ever drum cannot describe night- C9D swimming.
[Verse 4]
GC9D You, I thought I knew you. GC9A9* You, I can-not judge. C9D You, I thought you knew me. This one’s GC9D laughing quiet-ly under- GC9A9* -neath my breath. Night- C9D swimming.
[Interlude]
[Intro]
GC9 GD
[Verse] (w/ solo)
GC9D GC9A9* C9D (The..)
[Verse 5]
GC9D photograph re-flects every GC9A9* streetlight a reminder. Night- C9D -swimming de-serves a quiet GC9D night. GC9A9* de-serves a quiet C9D night.
I found the previous tab hard to follow and played around with the chords a little to get the rhythm down first. In doing so, I discovered that by simply removing the A note off the C chord it sounded closer to the song. Then, by changing the C to a Cadd9 and doing the same thing, song became extremely simple to play and still sounds great (on my guitar, actually better this way, to me). Thus creating the Aadd9 (A9)* for lack of a name. (Sure you'll let me know the real chord)
I show the basic Intro and Verse progressions above. I suggest just strumming until you get the rhythm down as it's not a very complicated song. Then by adding in base lines especially on the G chords, and using some middle string strumming you can make things a bit more interesting. Anyways, I love this song and give thanks and credit to for the original post. If you're looking, this is a great acoustic solo-artist song.
(Hopefully, this version works with formatting, else I give up - sorry for the previous one)