Nightswimming - R.E.M.
Version 2 of 6
- Nightswimming (Chords) (v1)Rating: 4.86 / 5.00
- Nightswimming (Tabs) (v1)Rating: 4.81 / 5.00
- Nightswimming (Tabs) (v2)Rating: 4.82 / 5.00
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- Nightswimming (Ukulele Chords) (v1)Rating: 4.67 / 5.00
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Song: Nightswimming
Artist: R.E.M.
Composers: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills & Michael Stipe
Album: Automatic for the people
Tabbed by: DJ 7th May 2016
To hear the song, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4
Best played by fingerpicking as arpeggios
= 320033 = xx023x = x32013
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N.C. = No chor
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d
NOTE: Rather than a full D major, I think the D5 is more
accurate to what Mike Mills plays on piano, so for guitar
just skip that F# note on the top string.
The D7 adds a nice touch, again it's subtle, and is up to you.
Please take a second to just scroll down to the bottom of the
page and select a star rating for my tab, many thanks
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Night - s
wimming ...d
e - serves a q
uiet night,
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The photograph
on the dashb
oard, take
n years a - go
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Turned around
backwards, so
the windshield
shows,
Every street -
light ...r
e - veals the
picture in re
- verse,
Still, i
t's so much cl
earer,
I forgot my s
hirt at the wa
ter's edge,
The Moon is lo
w to - night
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[Link]
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[Verse 2]
Night - s
wimming ...d
e - serves a q
uiet night,
I'm
not sure all
these people u
nder - stand,
It’s not like
years a - go,
A fear of gett
ing caught,
of wreckless
- ness and wat
er,
They cannot se
e me naked,
these thing
s they go a -
way,
Re - placed by
ev - ery day,
Night - swimmi
ng ...re - mem
bering that ni
ght,
Sep - tember's
coming soon
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[Verse 3]
I'm pining for
the moon,
and what
if there were
two,
Side - by - si
de in orbit a
- round the fa
irest sun?
That bright,
tight for - ev
er drum,
Could not desc
ribe--- night
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[Verse 4]
You, I thought
I knew you!
You, I c
an - not judg
e!
You, I thought
you knew me,
This one laugh
ing quiet - ly
...under
- neath my br
eath,
Ni
ght swimming
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[Link]
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[Instrumental Verse]
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[Verse 5]
The photograph
re - flects e
very streetlig
ht a re - mind
er,
Night swimming
de - serves a
quiet night,
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De - serves a
quiet night
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[Coda]
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