MURMUR: WE WALK

Okay, this is definitely the most silly song on the album.  It's great and a lot of fun, but you cannot deny that it is weird.  It also gets back to R.E.M. at its most repetitive in both narrative and melody.  Reminiscent of Stumble and 1,000,000.  In case you're wondering, Jean Paul Marat was a major player in the French Revolution.  He had mostly retired due to a skin condition for which he took medicinal baths for hours at a time.  On July 13, 1793 Charlotte Corday visited him claiming to have news and killed him in his bath with a knife she had hidden in her corset.

WE WALK
Up the stairs, to the landing
Up the stairs and to the home, uh-oh ome
Take oasis, Marat’s bay-ay-ay-athing

We walk through the wood, we walk

Up the stairs, to the landing
Up the stairs and to the ho, uh-oh ome
Take oasis, Marat’s bay-ay-ay-athing

We walk through the woods, we walk

Take oasis
Take oasis
Take oasis
Take oasis

Up the stairs, to the landing
Up the stairs and to the ho, uh-oh ome
Take oasis, Marat’s bay-ay-ay-athing

We walk through the world, we walk

Up the stairs, to the landing
Up the stairs and to the home, uh-oh ome
Take oasis, Marat’s bay-ay-ay-athing
Up the stairs, to the landing
Up the stairs and to the home, uh-oh ome
Take oasis, Marat’s bay-ay-ay-athing
Up the stairs, to the landing
Up the stairs and to the home, uh-oh ome
Into the oh-ome
Into the oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh …


For the guitar here, you have to tune up a 1/2 step like in Pilgrimage.  Listen to the song for the correct tuning.  I find it easier to Bar the F and G chords for the Intro/Chorus. 

WE WALK

Intro/Chorus: F-Dm-F-G

e|-1-1-1-1-1-1-3----|

B|-1-1-3-3-1-1-3----|

G|-2-2-2-2-2-2-4----|

D|-3-2-0-0-3-2-5----|

A|------------------|

E|------------------|

Verse: C-Am (x6)

e|----0-------0------|

B|-----1-------1-----|

G|---0--0----2--0----|

D|--2-------2--------|

A|-3-----3-0---------|

E|-------------------|

Em

e|------7--------|

B|-----8---------|

G|----9----------|

D|---9-----------|

A|--7------------|

E|-7-------------|

Bridge (Picked):

Am-F-Bb-C (x3)

Second Guitar Riff:

e|----------------------|

B|----------------------|

G|----------------------|

D|-3-2-0----------------|

A|------3-3-2-0---------|

E|-------------1--------|

Am-F-Bb-Bb/B/C

Second Guitar Riff:

e|----------------------|

B|----------------------|

G|----------------------|

D|-3-2-0----------------|

A|------1-2-3-----------|

E|----------------------|

Fun right?  Okay, one more song to go on Murmur and then it's on to Reckoning. 
-BW