The Bends Album chords by Radiohead

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                     Radiohead's Album "The Bends"
                      compilation put together by
                   Sergio Lucero luceros6@cti.ecp.fr
                   "Sulk" added by Tex (randell@heinous.music.uiowa.edu)
                   corrections and additions welcome
                      current version 0.75 [9/12]
                           dated Dec. 3rd 1995
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SONGS

                1             planet telex (missing)
                               the bends
                              high and dry
                           fake plastic trees
                5                bones (missing)
                              [nice dream]
                                  just
                              my iron lung
                       bullet proof..i wish i was
               10              black star (missing)
                                  sulk
                        street spirit [fade out]

CREDITS:        Dan Zink [zink@uiuc.edu]                         2,8tab
                Sergio Lucero [luceros6@cti.ecp.fr]              3,6,9
                Glenn Rubenstein [glennrub@delphi.com]           4
                Kasper van Benten (kbbenten@cs.vu.nl)            7
                Dave Stein (4dms3@qlink.queensu.ca)              11
                Mike [michael.healey@balliol.ox.ac.uk]           12

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                               the bends

intro: D, C, B, C, B, C (x4)
verse: E, G, C (x2)

then:
--------------------------------------------------------
-2----2-3-5-8-7-5-----5----5-6-8-11-8-11-8-11-8-11^-----
-2--------------------5---------------------------------
-2--------------------5---------------------------------
-0--------------------3---------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------

then: E, G, C again

chorus: D, C, B, C

palm muted chord after
"i wish, i wish, i wish, that something would happen": E

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                              high and dry

Intro:

main: F#m7(11) Asus2 E


                          F#m7(11)
                          two ..
                            Asus2
                  I ..
                             E
                             don't ..

                       Flying ..
                watching ..
                  You'd ...
                    kill ..
                       You ..
               you're ..

                Don't ..
                Don't ..

     Drying ...
      All ..
                       you ..

                Don't ..

Solo: (on a single string)

B-5-5-4-5-5--4-5-5--4-5s7s5-4--5-5-4-5-5-2-0----2---4-

B-5-5-4-5-5--4-5-5--4-5s7s5-4--5-5-4-5-5-2-0----------


                 It's ..
                   best ...
                 It's ..
               the ..

                Don't .....

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                           fake plastic trees

Special thanks to: et-lee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu


Okay, this is pretty accurate, I took the chords that Gene listed and
put them to the lyrics, figuring out the exact changes and the strumming
pattern. It sounds almost perfect when I play along to my CD and it
works well enough.


Strumming pattern:

e---------------------- (only strum for the D chord)
B----------x-----------
G----------x-----------
D---x-x----x-----------
A---x-x----x----------- (for the D chord, don't play this string...)
E--don't play----------

(4 of the above strums equals what you should play for
each chord when it changes)

(on the D/A/D change play 2 strums D, then 2 strums A, then 4 strums D)


Start strumming A for the intro, come in with
the lyrics on the second strum of the pattern)

A                            F#m
Her ..
                               E  D
For ..
              A     D
In ..
A                               F#m
That ..
                            E   D
In ..
       A      D
To ..


             Bm
It ..
             A
It ..
             Bm
It ..
             A
It ..


She ..
A ..
Who ..
He ..
For ..
But ..


And ..
It ..
It ..
It ..


She ..
She ..
My ..
But ..
I ..
If ..

And ..
It ..
It ..
It ..
And ..
If ..
All ..
All ..

A (with more energy)
F#m (with more energy)
D (with more energy, no change this time)

(end on) A

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                              [nice dream]

[Intro by Kasper van Benten]

C-B-Bb-A (x2)

 A                           D
they ..
                        E
they ..
      A                 D
they ..
                           E
gave ...

 Bm          E          A
nice ...

i ..
but ..
she ..
the ...

 Bm          E          A           F#m
nice..

nice ..
nice ..
nice ..
nice ..
nice ..
nice ..

[anyone for the bridge section?]

Then back to "nice dream"

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                                  just

Intro: C D# D F (3x)
C:	x35553
D#:	x68886
D:	x57775
F:	x81010108

Didn't figure out any more of this song..... YET!


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                              my iron lung

Here's how to play the beginning:


                                             (bend and
                                              release)
--------10-------------7-------------8------------------------
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8-----8----10-/-\----8------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

--------10-------------7-------------8-----11-----11----------
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8-----8------8------8-------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

--------10-------------7-------------8---10---11---10---8-----
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8---------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

--------10-------------7-------------8-----11-----11----------
-----8------8-------8-----8-------8-----8------8------8-------
--------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------
-10-------------8-------------6-------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------

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                       bullet proof..i wish i was

Verse: C Bm G D

Chorus: G D C

bullet ..

so ..
lead-..
i ..
all ..
bullet ..

bullet ..

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Its in 3 BTW

D
You ..
D
The ..
D
You ..
C      G
sulk
                   D
Sit ..

(pre-chorus and chorus)

D
G               C
   Sometime ..
                D
sometime ..
G               C
   God ..

For the end of the song (last chorus) we go up a tone to A-D-E for the
chorus.

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                        street spirit [fade out]

This just has three really easy picking patterns in it, plus a few bits
over the top which I can't be bothered to work out...

FIG A:

    Am              Asus4           Am              Asus2
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-0---------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|


FIG E:-

    Em              Em7             Em6             Em
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-0---------------------------------------------------------------|


FIG C:-

    C               Cadd9           C               Cmaj7
E-|---------0---------------0---------------0-----------------------|
B-|-----------------3---------------1---------------0---------------|
G-|-----0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0---|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------2-------|
A-|-3---------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|


Intro: A
Verses: A E
Chorus: C E A


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