R.E.M
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Album: Automatic For The People

(intro)

D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/

The transition to the verses:

  C               Em
e---------0-----|---------0---------
B-------------1-|-------------0-----
G---------------|-------------------
D-----2---------|-------------------
A-3-------------|-----2-------------
E---------------|-0-----------------


{F, C, and A's are barre chords}

F                                   C
This here is the place where I will stay in
      F                               
There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone
C                                 F  
Let it ring a long long long long time
                             Am                C                F    C
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more,  Ohhhhhhh... 
   F                                        Am                          C    
If I don't pick up, pick up, the sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil
      

D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her

C    Em  {Play using above riff}
Ohhhh.....

          F                        F
There are scratches all around the coin slot
                  C
Like a heart beat baby trying to wake up
F                         C
But this machine can only swallow money

you can't lay a patch by computer design
F                 Am          C
Just a lot of stupid, stupid signs
          
 
F          C
Tell her {yodeled}
F                        C                                   F
Tell her she can kiss my ass and laugh and say that you were only kidding
                                   Am                                 C
That way she'll know that it was really, really, really, really me me
 
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am          C  Em
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her

      F
Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me
      C
Today I need something more sub, stop, sub, sub, substantial
F                                          C
A can of beans or black eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice
F                                      Am               C
Candy bar, a fallen star, or a reading from Doctor Suess

 
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am          C  Em
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her

Bridge:

(*During the bridge, Am and Bm are played as A barres, and the picking 
pattern is like this:

  Bm              Bm               Am               Am 
e---------2------|---------2------|---------0------|---------0------|
B-------------3--|-------------3--|-------------1--|-------------1--|
G----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D-----4----------|-----4----------|-----2----------|-----2----------|
A-2--------------|-2--------------|-0--------------|-0--------------|
E----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

The C below is picked in the same pattern, i.e. A str, D str, e str, B str*)

Bm                            Am                     Bm
The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way.
                                    Am
Always had a smile, never reason to pretend,
          Bm                                Am                   C
Their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream
               Em     
The sidewinder sleeps on his back

D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am 
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her
D                    G            C       G         Am         C  Em (*)
Call when you try to wake her up, call when you try to wake her

(*But now this transition thing changes to what we'll call the New Transition*)
 C                Em
e---------0-----|-0-------0-----|
B-------------1-|-0-------0-----|
G---------------|-0-------0-----|
D-----2---------|-2-------2-----|
A-3-------------|-2-------2-----|
E---------------|-0-------2-----|

D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/
D////G//C//Am/

C                         Em        D
You got a boogie woogie groove on this one