Tuning:

# For the latest collection of R.E.M. chords & tab, go to # http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/rem/ # # If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them # to cbray@comp.uark.edu # UNDERTOW Transcribed by Jesse Sage (jsage@fas.harvard.edu) and Josh Meyer (jmeyer@haverford.edu)

Verse bass line:

------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- -5-7-7-7-----------5----------------- ---------5---5-5-8-------------------

Chorus bass line:

------------------- ------------7-5-4-- -5-7-7-7----------- -------------------

^EI know what I ^Awanted ^EI know what I ^Awanted ^EI know how I ^Awanted this to ^Ebe ^A

Go down to the water Jump down on the water Walk above the water, leaving me This is not my time, brother It is cold in heaven and I'm not sprouting wings.

^EI'm ^Adrown^Eing ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EMe^A ^E ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EI'm ^Adrown^Eing ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EMe^A, ^Eye^Aah

See those birds, you know the birds They don't look to heaven They don't need religion, they can see They go down to the water Drink out of the water Fly above the water, leaving me This is not my dream, sister It is cold in heaven And no one's coming after me

^EI'm ^Adrown^Eing ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EMe^A ^E ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EI'm ^Adrown^Eing ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EMe^A, ^Eye^Aah

Bridge

: F# D F# D F# D C#m7 C#m7

You know I'm tired Cold, alone and tired Nothing's going to save me, oh I can see I can't say I'm fearful I can't say I'm not afraid But I am not resisting, I can see I don't need a heaven I don't need religion I am in the place where I should be I am breathing water I am breathing water And everybody's got to breathe

^EI'm ^Adrown^Eing ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EMe^A ^E ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EI'm ^Adrown^Eing ^A (Breathing ourselves) ^EMe^A, ^Eye^Aah

Ending: End by arrpegiating C#minor7

: e - 4 B - 5 G - 4 D - 6 A - 4 E

R.E.M. - Undertow (chords)