Document Album by R.E.M.
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro : 'B'
       Bass  :  |D D D F# B|  (the 'Ds' are octaves from each other)
 
       B
       The time to rise has been engaged
       You're better best to rearrange
       I'm talking here to me alone
       I listen to the finest worksong,
 
 
       Chorus :
 
       E    F#
       oh., ooho..
                 Your finest hour
       E    F#
       oh., ooho..
                 Your finest hour
 
       Another chance has been engaged
       To throw Thoreau and rearrange
       You are following this time
       I beg you not beg to rhyme
 
       Chorus
       Bridge: |  A  |
 
 
       Take your instinct by the reins
       Your better best to rearrange
       What we want and what we need
       Has been confused been confused
 
       Chorus
 
 
 
 
       Finest Worksong
       ===============
 
 
       {on this song, it is often effective to raise the finger that you're
        barring the B chord with to give it a suspended feel and create an
        A note in the bass!  This song is about 90% style.  The chords alone
        don't cut it!  Oh well.....}
 
         B
        The time to rise has been engaged
        You're better best to rearrange
        I'm talking here to me alone
        I listen to the finest worksong
          E  F#                      E F#
                 Your finest hour
 
        {same as before}
 
        Another chance has been engaged
        To throw Thoreau and rearrange
        You are following this time
        I beg you not beg to rhyme
        Your finest hour
 
       {break A  single notes:   A G F#  G A}
 
        Take your instinct by the reins
        Your better best to rearrange
        What we want and what we need
        Has been confused been confused
        Your finest hour
 
       {end with Em and various harmonics}
 
 
 
 
       Welcome To The Occupation
       =========================
 
 
       The Intro goes like this:
 
       E--0--         X=Mute this string
       B--0--
       G--0--         I don't know the name of this chord
       D--2--         but i'm sure it has one.  anybody?
       A--0--
       E--X--         Anyways, the Intro is this chord, then
                      a Dsus2:   E--0--
         |                       B--3--
         |                       G--2--
         |-------------->        D--0--
                                 A--0--
 
       Then the, verses go:
 
 
        Em       G      Em     Dsus2 (either strum or pick the 1,2 & 3
       Hang your collar up inside                              strings)
       Hang your dollar on me
       Listen to the water still
       Listen to the causeway run (you are?)
 
           note- When going from the Em to the G and back again,
                 walk the bass notes up (eg. A
                        and back down too    E--0--2--3--
                                                Em    G
 
       [the "Man educated" part is the 1st chord of the Intro (maybe Am7)
       [again, followed by this chord, which may not be correct
       [and, again, I don't know what it's called:
 
          E--0--       It's sort of like the shape of an augmented
          B--3--       chord.
          G--4--
          D--4--
          A--5--
          E--X--
 
 
 
       Man educated primitive and wild
       Welcome to the occupation
 
        Em      G      Em          Dsus2
       Here we stand and here we fight
       All your fallen heroes
       Held and died and skinned alive
       Listen to the Congress fire
 
 
 
 
 
        (as above i.e. "Man educated . . .")
 
       Offering the educated primitive and loyal
       Welcome to the occupation
       Hang your collar up inside
       Hang your freedom higher
       Listen to the buyer still
       Listen to the Congress
       Where we propagate confusion
       Primitive and wild
       Fire on the hemisphere below
 
            - at this point, there is an Instrumental break where
              you play:
 
           Fmaj7    Em    (x2) (I think)
 
             then, coming out of this and into the final Verse,
             play (rather aggressively):
 
            G     D
 
       (back to this again)
 
       Em     G       Em     Dsus2
       Sugar cane and coffee cup
       Copper steel and cattle
       An annotated history the forest for the fire
 
       (same as before)
 
       Where we open up the floodgates
       Freedom reigns supreme
       Fire on the hemisphere below
 
                    Em  G  Em  Dsus2
       Listen to me
 
        then the "Outro" tagged on the end goes:
              Em  Dsus2  Em (maybe Em7?)
 
 
 
 
 
       Exhuming McCarthy
       =================
 
 
                 G#    C#        G#   C#            G#  C#
        You're beautiful more beautiful than me
                F#             G#     C#            G#  C#
        You're honorable more honorable than me
         G#      C#   D#        C#
        Loyal to the Bank of America
 
        You can kind of fake the bass line here.....
 
        (A) --------0-2-0-4-4-4-2-0-------
        (E) -0-2-2------------------2-0----     repeat as necessary
 
        It's a sign of the times
 
                  F#         B     F#            B
        You're sharpening stones walking on coals
          F#    B           C#    B
        To improve your business acumen
 
         G#      C#      G#     C#   G#      C#     F#
        Vested interest united ties lend a gentry rationalize
 
         G#        C#        G# C# G#     C#    D#    C#
        Look who bought the myth buy a jingle buy America
 
        It's a sign of the times it's a sign of the times
 
        Enemy sighted enemy met I'm addressing the realpolitik
        Look who bought the myth buy a jingle buy America
 
       {the break is:   C / / / C / / / D# / / /D# / / / X 3
        then walkdown     F D#   C#   B
 
        "Let us not assassinate this man further than the truth,
        but you've done enough.  Have you no sense of decency, sir?
        At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
 
         {The last Verse is a little bit different, it goes: }
 
                F#          B      F#          B
         You're sharpening stones  walking on coals
         F#   B           E
         To improve your business acumens....
 
         F#          B          F#        B
        You've seen Stalin and you've seen ___
         F#       B           E
        I always thought of you as quick
         F#          B          F#   B      F#      B           E
        Exhuming McCarthy               Exhuming McCarthy
 
        {end on F#}
 
 
 
 
       Disturbance At The Heron House
       ==============================
 
 
       {The main riff goes something like this:}
 
       (B) --keep a finger on the 3rd fret
       (G) ---2-0-(0)-4-2-2-2-4---0---
       (D) -0-0-0-(0)-0-0-0-0-0-2---0-
       (A) -every other time, play this string open...
 
       {I'm pretty sure that Peter is just picking a Dsus2 chord throughout
        the whole Verse, but Mills is doing other "stuff" on the bass. I play
        the chords Dsus2 and Dsus2/C just to make it interesting.  I probably
        should pull out McCabe's Guitar Shop and see what they did there, huh?}
 
                  D      D/C        D        D/C
        "They're going wild," the call came in
              D      D/C   D         D/C
        At early morning pre-dawn, then
               D   D/C      D
        "The followers of chaos out of control
                 D   D/C       D   D/C
        They're numbering the monkeys
              D    D/C          D   D/C
        The monkeys and the monkeys,"
              D     D/C     D
        The followers of chaos out of control
 
       {blah..blah..blah...}
 
        "They're meeting at the monument,"
        The call came in the monument
        To liberty and honor under the honor roll
        "They've gathered up the cages the cages and courageous,"
        The followers of chaos out of control
 
              G               A
        The call came in to Party Central
          G       A       G        A
        "Meeting of the green and simple,"
         G              A
        Try to tell us something we don't know
       {The break is:    C   F    C    F  then on to opening riff...}
 
        "Disturbance at the Heron House"
        A stampede at the monument
        To liberty and honor under the honor roll
        The gathering of grunts and greens
        Cogs and grunts and hirelings
        A meeting of a mean idea to hold
        "When feeding time has come and gone
        They'll lose the heart and head for home
        Try to tell us something we don't know"
 
 
 
 
       Strange (Wire)
       ==============
 
 
       Intro :  |G /  // //  C C|
 
       G                             C
       There's something strange going on tonight
       G                             C
       There's something going on that's not quite right
       G                             C
       Michael's nervous and the lights are bright
       G                             C
       There's something going on that's not quite right
 
       E                             A
       There's something going on that wasn't here before
       Keep your eyes glued to the floor
       There's something strange going on tonight
       There's something going on that's not quite right
 
       There's something going on that wasn't here before
       Keep your eyes glued to the floor
       No one's going to say goodnight
       There's something going on that's not quite right
 
 
 
 
       Strange
       =======
 
 
       {Intro:   G/ G/ G/ C x 4 }
 
         G                                C
        There's something strange going on tonight
         G                                  C
        There's something going on that's not quite right
         G                                          C
        Michael's nervous and the lights are bright
         G                                     C
        There's something going on that's not quite right
 
         E                               Esus4
        There's something going on that wasn't here before
         E              Esus4
        Keep your eyes glued to the floor
         E                                Esus4
        There's something strange going on tonight
         E                                Esus4
        There's something going on that's not quite right
 
 
        There's something going on that wasn't here before
        Keep your eyes glued to the floor
        No one's going to say goodnight
        There's something going on that's not quite right
 
 
 
 
 
 
       It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
       =========================================================
 
 
       Drum Intro.
 
       G                             C
       That's great it starts with an earthquake
                                G
       Birds and snakes and aeroplanes
                           C
       Lenny Bruce is not afraid
       G
       Eye of a hurricane listen to yourself churn
       C
       World serves its own needs dummy serve your own needs
       G
       Speed it up a notch speed grunt nose strength
            C
       The ladder starts to clatter with dinner fight down height
       A#
       Wire in a fire room represent the seven gangs
            A
       In a government for hire and a combat site
 
       G
       Lefty wasn't coming in a hurry
                                C
       With the furies breathing down your neck
       G
       Team by team reporters baffled trump tethered crop
                 C
       Look at that low plane fine then
       G
       Uh oh overflow population coming through
            C
       But it'll do save yourself serve yourself
                           G
       World serves its own needs listen to your heartbeat
       C
       dummy with the rapture and the rever'nt and the right right?
            A#                                           A
       You vitriolic patriotic slam fight right might feeling pretty
       psyched
 
       Chorus :
                 G         D         Am
       It's the end of the world as we know it
       It's the end of the world as we know it           C
       It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
 
       Six o'clock TV hour don't get caught foreign tower
       Slash and burn return listen to yourself churn lock him in uniform
       And book-burning blood-letting every motive escalate
       Automotive incinerate light a candle light a motive
       Step down step down watching heel crush crush
       Uh oh this means no beer, Cavalier renegade steer clear
       A tournament a tournament a tournament of lies
       A#                                           A
       Offer me solutions offer me alternatives and I decline
 
       Chorus
       Bridge | G | C | G | C | G | F |
       Chorus
 
 
       The other night I drifted nice continental trip to find
       Mountains stand in a line, Leonard Bernstein
       Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
       Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
       You symbiotic patriotic slam butt neck right? right!
 
       Chorus  --> | G |
       Chorus ('acapella')  end this Chorus with a 'jangly C'
       Chorus to fade
       It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
       =========================================================
 
        G                               C
        That's great it starts with an earthquake
                                 G
        Birds and snakes and aeroplanes
                              C
        Lenny Bruce is not afraid
         G
        Eye of a hurricane listen to yourself churn
         C
        World serves its own needs dummy serve your own needs
         G
        Speed it up a notch speed grunt nose street burn
             C
        The ladder starts to clatter with dinner fight down height
         A#
        Wire in a fire room represent the southern gangs
                 A
        In a government for hire and a combat site
 
       {same as before}
        Lefty wasn't coming in a hurry
        With the furies breathing down your neck
        Team by team reporters grapple trunk tethered crop
        Look at that low plane fine then
        Uh oh overflow population cornered
        But it'll do save yourself serve yourself
        World serves its own needs listen to your heartbeat
        Tell me that the reds are in the reverend in the right right?
        You patriotic patriotic slam fight right might feeling pretty psyched
 
                  G            D          Am
        It's the end of the world as we know it
                  G            D          Am
        It's the end of the world as we know it
                  G            D          Am                  C     C/B
        It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
 
        Six o'clock TV hour don't get caught foreign tower
        Slice and burn return listen to yourself churn lock him in uniform
        And book-burning blood-letting every motive escalate
        Automotive incinerate light a candle light a motive
        Step down step down watching heel crush crush
        Uh oh this means no fear cavalier renegade steer clear
        A tournament a tournament a tournament of lies
        Offer me solutions offer me alternatives and I decline
 
        It's the end of the world as we know it
        (It's time I had some time alone)
        It's the end of the world as we know it
        (It's time I had some time alone)
        It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
 
          G      C       G       C      G      F
         I feel fine    I feel  fine
 
        The other night I drifted nice continental trip to find
        Mount Saint Edelite Leonard Bernstein
        Leonid Brezhnev Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
        Birthday party cheesecake jellybeans boom
        You symbiotic patriotic slam foot neck right right
 
 
 
 
       The One I Love
       ==============
 
 
        Riff:  E:   --------------0-0-0-0-0-------------
               B:   ---------3-s--5-3-5-5-3-------------
               G:   ---------2--------------------------
               D:   ---------0--------------------------
               A:    -----------------------------------
               E:   -0-0-3-5---------------------0-0-3-5-
 
         Em                D            Em7
        This one goes out to the one I love
         Em                D                Em7
        This one goes out to the one I've left behind
         G / Gsus4 D        C
        A simple prop to occupy my time
         Em                D            Em7
        This one goes out to the one I love
 
        {riff}
 
        Fire
 
        This one goes out to the one I love
        This one goes out to the one I've left behind
        Another prop has occupied my time
        This one goes out to the one I love
 
        E:  --0-3-5-   D chord  D# chord  Em chord
 
 
 
 
       King Of Birds
       =============
 
 
       Intro :  D
 
       D
       A thumbnail sketch, a jeweler's stone
       A mean idea to call my own
       Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young
       There's time to teach, point to point
       Point observation, children carry reservations
                                            G
       Standing on the shoulders of giants, leaves me cold
       F#m                           A                        D
       A mean idea to call my own, a hundred million birds fly
 
 
       D
       Singer sing me a given, singer sing me a song
       Standing on the shoulders of giants everybody's looking on
                                           G
       Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold
       F#m                           A                         B
       A mean idea to call my own, a hundred million birds fly away
       E         B                        E         -->  D
       away... awaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyieeeeeee
 
            (this part sung 'on top of' the  2nd line in the 2nd Verse)
            There's time to teach point to point
            Point observation children carry reservations
 
 
       D
       I am king of all I see my kingdom for a voice
       Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young
       Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young
       There's time to teach, point to point
       Point observation, children carry reservations
                                            G
       Standing on the shoulders of giants, leaves me cold
       F#m                           A                     D
       A mean idea to call my own, a hundred million birds fly