Circus Envy, R.E.M.

By:  therapy@student.adelaide.edu.au

Bass Tab:
Verse: 
g:|---------------|
d:|-----------3---|
a:|5535--5535--53-|
e:|---------------|
[repeat through verse]

Chorus: <i've got my telescope head...>
g:|-------75-----5----------5-----75-----7----------5-----75-----5----
d:|5-5-77---75-57-7-55-7--57-7-55---75-57-5-55-7--57-7-55---75-57-7-55
a:|-------------------------------------------------------------------
e:|-------------------------------------------------------------------

Break: <you're mean, mean, mean...>
g:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------------
d:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------------
a:|5-553-337-78-888-|5-553-338-87-777-|5-553-337-78-888-|5-553-338-87-7-7-7-7/0
e:|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------------

Lyrics:
Here comes that awful feeling again
Welcome the ugly animal.
I hold my breath to what you sing,
My pyro acrobat ball and chain,
I'm not a freak, I messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up

I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I'm getting tired of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command

Here comes that awful feeling again
Make way for monster jealousy
The strong man kicked sand into my breakfast cereal bowl
I'd spelled your name with Oatios,
he messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up

I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I am tired of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command

(you're mean, mean, mean
you tease, tease, tease me)

If I were you I'd really run from me
I'd really really wish that I were you
When I get loose I'll climb a tree
and drop a load on your head
This monster in me makes me retch, you messed it, messed it up

I've got my telescope head in the haystack
I am jealous of your dodgeball circus act
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command

(you're mean, mean, mean
you tease, tease, tease me)

Do you smell jealousy?
Do you smell jealousy, jealousy, jealousy?


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circus envy (another version)

bass tabbed by unknown@bellatlantic.net

note- each '-' represents a half beat
    -a tab with           represents a 16th dotted 8th rythmn
		g|---3- |
		d|0-- - |
		a|--3 - |
    - this is written in 2/4

verse (come in with the lyrics each time)
      (i play the verse riffs with quarter notes, that's what
       is tabbed, but it could also be played with eighths to
       match what the lead guitar is playing)
             __________________   _______ 
               1,3,4,5,7 | 2,6    | 8.
g|  ----|----|----|----  |---3-   |----|----|
d|* 0--0|----|0--0|-30- *|0-- -  *|0--0|-0--|
a|* --3-|----|--3-|---3 *|--3 -  *|--3-|--30|
e|  ----|----|----|----  |------  |----|----|
     ^(hold out d)


chorus (i've got my...)  (three times)

g|  9976|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----  |
d|* ----|-7--|----|----|----|----|-559|7---|---- *|
a|* ----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---- *|
e|  ----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----  |
          ^hold out                    ^hold out

bridge (you're mean...)
              __________________         ______
               1,3         | 2.          | 4.
g|  ----|----|2-25- |-2--  |0-02- |-0--  |0-02- | (hold a for 5 more 
d|* 0-0-|3-3-|--- - |--30 *|--- - |--30 *|--- - |  counts)
a|* ----|----|--- - |---- *|--- - |---- *|--- - |
e|  ----|----|--- - |----  |--- - |----  |--- - |


bridge2 
              __________________         ______
               1,3,5,7     |2,4,6        | 8.
g|  ----|----|2-25- |-2--  |0-02- |-0--  |0-02- | (hold a for 5 more 
d|* 0-0-|3-3-|--- - |--30 *|--- - |--30 *|--- - |  counts, end on
a|* ----|----|--- - |---- *|--- - |---- *|--- - |  openning riff)
e|  ----|----|--- - |----  |--- - |----  |--- - |


it goes something like this:
	verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, bridge2, 
	opening riff