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I Walked With a Zombie

R.e.m.
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I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE

Chords by: JA Verzosa (verzosa@cleo.bc.edu)

and Jeremy Price (etljype@etlxdmx.ericsson.se)

Solo by: Chris Bray (cbray@comp.uark.edu)

INTRO:

| | | |D |

--------------drums only -------------

|G |G |Em |Em |

|C |D |G |G |

REST OF SONG:

||G |G |Em |Em |

|C |D |G |G ||

Repeat till

you get bored

The main guitar is an acoustic strumming standard open

chords.

There is a second electric guitar ( with lots of reverb or tremelo )

playing :

1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a 1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a

e|------------3---------------4---||------------0-------0-------0---||
B|--------3-----------3-----------||--------0-----------------------||
G|------------------------4-------||------------------------0-------||
D|5-------------------------------||2-------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------||--------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------||--------------------------------||

x2 x2

1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a 1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a

e|------------8---------------8---|------------10--------------10--|
B|--------8-----------8-----------|--------10----------10----------|
G|------------------------9-------|------------------------11------|
D|10------------------------------|12------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a

e|------------3---------------4---||
B|--------3-----------3-----------||
G|------------------------4-------||
D|5-------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------||

x2

WORDS

G

I walked with a zombie

Em

I walked with a zombie

C D

I walked with a zombie

G

last night.

plus occasionally some "he walked with a zombie"

backing vocals.

VERSES:

All basically the same ( same chords ) but a few differences:

Verse1: Michael

Verse2: Michael

Verse3: Michael

Verse4: Guitar solo ( John Keane )

Verse5: Michael

Verse6: Michael ( spoken )

Verse7: Michael ( plus backing vocals )

Verse8: Michael ( plus backing vocals )

Verse9: Bill

Verse10: Mike

Verse11: Michael ( spoken ) fade out

In verse 8 there are a couple of quarter note triplet walking

bass lines between chords, they are

G - F# - E between G and Em

E - D - C between Em and C

SOLO:

E-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
B-|-2---4/6----6bb----6b-\-4---6b-\-4---2-p-0---2-p-0---------|
G-|-----------------------------------------------------0--2--|
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|----------------------------------------------------0----------------------|
D-|-------0---------------0--2--0--0----------------------2--0----------------|
A-|-0--2-----3------0--2----------------0--2--0------------------2--0---------|
E-|----------------------------------------------3----------------------3-----|

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