Tabs: Author/Artist: The Wallflowers
Title: Sleepwalker
Album: Breach
Transcribed by: Chris Charette
Email: [email protected]
Standard tuning
Ok this is the main guitar picking.
Guitar1
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Guitar2 ^
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When the 13th note is played for the second time, guitar2 comes with
this quick play.
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The basic verse chords are : Em 022000
G 320033
C 032010
C/B X20003
D 000212
G/F# 2X0003
A 003330
Em G
Maybe I could be the one they adore…
C C/B D
that could be my reputation . . .
Em G
It’s where I’m from that lets them think I’m a whore,
C C/B D
I’m an educated virgin,
Em Am D G G/F# Em
Sleepwalker don’t be shy… Don’t open your eyes…. tonight,
Em Am D D
You’ll be the one who defends my life…when I’m dead asleep dreaming,
Chorus:
C G D Em
Cupid don’t draw back your bow (clap,clap!!)
G C D Em
Sam Cooke didn’t didn’t know what I know . . .
C G D Em C D
Em
Never be you’re valentine, the sleepwalker in me… god only knows
that I tried
Guitar1
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Guitar2
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Em G
let me in, let me drown or learn how to swim,
C C/B D
Just don’t leave me at the window,
Em G
I could be the one to be your next best friend,
C C/B D
You may need someone to hold you,
Em Am D G G/F# Em
Sleepwalker take this knife, You may see someone…… tonight,
Em A D D
you’d be the one that saves my life, When I’m dead asleep dreaming,
Chorus:
C G D Em
Cupid don’t draw back your bow (clap,clap!!)
G C D Em
cause Sam Cooke didn’t know what I know . . .
C G D Em
Never be your valentine,
C D C
the sleepwalker in me… god only knows that I tried….
D C G
I’m in your movie, And everyone looks sad,
D C G
I can hear you, Your voice in the laugh track,
Em A D D
But you never saw my best scene…. The one where I sleep,
Sleepwalk into your…. dreams
Em Am D G G/F#
Em
Now sleepwalker, what’s my line, It’s only a matter of time until
I,
Em A D D
Learn to open up my eyes, When I’m dead asleep dreaming,
Chorus:
C G D Em
Cupid don’t draw back your bow (clap,clap!!)
G C D Em
Sam Cooke didn’t didn’t know what I know . . .
C G D Em C
Never be your valentine, the sleepwalker in me…
Now the sleepwalker in me,
Now the sleepwalker in me,
god only knows that I’ve tried.
