Summertime tab by R.E.M.

Tabs

SUMMERTIME (Gershwin)


Progression 1:

  Am6Am6   E9E9     Am6Am6   E9E9     Am6Am6   E9E9     Am6Am6   E9E9
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|
|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|
|----4-------6-----|----4-------6-----|----4-------6-----|----4-------6-----|
|--0---------------|--0---------------|--0---------------|--0---------------|
|----------0-------|----------0-------|----------0-------|----------0-------|
  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .


Progression 2:

  DmDm   Gm6Gm6    Fmaj7Fmaj7  AdimAdim    E MajorE
|----1-------3-----|----5-------5-----|----0-------0-----|----0-------0-----|
|----3-------3-----|----5-------4-----|------------------|------------------|
|----2-------3-----|----5-------5-----|----1-------2-----|----3-------4-----|
|--0-----0-2-----2-|--3-----3-4-----4-|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|--0-----0-2-----2-|--3-----3-4-------|
  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .

Progression 1b:

  Am6Am6   E9E9     Am6Am6   E9E9     Am6Am6   E9E9     Am6Am6
|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------------|
|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------------|
|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------7-----|----5-------------|
|----4-------6-----|----4-------6-----|----4-------6-----|----4-------------|
|--0---------------|--0---------------|--0---------------|--0---------------|
|----------0-------|----------0-------|----------0-------|------0---3---5---|
  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .


Progression 3:

  Cmaj7Cmaj7  Am7Am7    F9F9+6  E7E7+5-9   Am6Am6   E7E7     Am6Am6   E7E7
|----3-------5-----|----3-------1-----|----2-------4-----|----2-------4-----|
|----5-------5-----|----3-------1-----|----1-------3-----|----1-------3-----|
|----4-------5-----|----2-------1-----|----0-------1-----|----0-------1-----|
|----5-------5-----|----1-------0-----|----2-------0-----|----2-------0-----|
|--3-----------3---|------3-------2---|--0---------------|--0---------------|
|------3---5-------|--1-------0-------|----------0-------|----------0-------|
  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .

Progression-3b: (Ending)

  Cmaj7Cmaj7  Am7Am7    F9F9+6  E7E7+5    Am6Am6   E7E7     Am6Am6
|--3-------5-------|--3-------0-------|----2-------4-----|--5---------------|
|--5-------5-------|--3-------1-------|----1-------3-----|--5---------------|
|--4-------5-------|--2-------1-------|----0-------1-----|--5---------------|
|--5-------5-------|--1-------0-------|----2-------0-----|--4---------------|
|--3---------------|------------------|--0---------------|--0---------------|
|----------5-------|--1-------0-------|----------0-------|------------------|
  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .  1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .


Summertime

Verse 1:

    Summertime
    And the living is easy
    Fish are jumpin'
    And the cotton is high

    Your daddy's rich
    And your mama's good lookin'
    So hush little baby now
     don't you cry

Verse 2:

    One of these mornin's
    You're gonna rise up singin'
    You're gonna spread your wings
    And take to the sky

    But til that mornin'
    Ain't nothin' can harm you
    With your daddy & your mammy
     standin' by


My arrangement:

 Intro:    prog-1
 Verse-1:   prog-1
        prog-2
        prog-1b
        prog-3
 Verse-2:   (same as Verse-1, except use chords from 2nd-half of
        prog-3 instead of chords from prog-1)
 Solo:
 Verse-1:
 Ending:   Repeat last line with prog-3 again, then
        repeat last line with prog-3b, very slowly.
        (It's nice to add a descending scale between the
        F9F9+6 & E7E7+5 chords. Try an Fmaj scale from middle-F,
        and ending on the low-E.)

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