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I Walked With a Zombie (Chords) Guitar Tablature
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I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE


Chords by:  JA Verzosa ([email protected])
        and Jeremy Price ([email protected])
Solo by: Chris Bray ([email protected])


 INTRO:

  |            |            |            |D           |
   --------------drums only -------------

  |G           |G           |Em          |Em          |
  |C           |D           |G           |G           |

 REST OF SONG:

 ||G           |G           |Em          |Em          |
  |C           |D           |G           |G           ||
                                               Repeat till
                                               you get bored


 The main guitar is an acoustic strumming standard open
 chords.

 There is a second electric guitar ( with lots of reverb or tremelo )
 playing :

  1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a   1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a
e|------------3---------------4---||------------0-------0-------0---||
B|--------3-----------3-----------||--------0-----------------------||
G|------------------------4-------||------------------------0-------||
D|5-------------------------------||2-------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------||--------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------||--------------------------------||
                               x2                                x2
  1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a  1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a
e|------------8---------------8---|------------10--------------10--|
B|--------8-----------8-----------|--------10----------10----------|
G|------------------------9-------|------------------------11------|
D|10------------------------------|12------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


  1 a & a 2 a & a 3 a & a 4 a & a
e|------------3---------------4---||
B|--------3-----------3-----------||
G|------------------------4-------||
D|5-------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------||
                               x2

 WORDS

G
   I walked with a zombie
Em
   I walked with a zombie
C               D
I walked with a zombie
     G
last night.

   plus occasionally some "he walked with a zombie"
   backing vocals.

 VERSES:

   All basically the same ( same chords ) but a few differences:

   Verse1: Michael
   Verse2: Michael
   Verse3: Michael
   Verse4: Guitar solo ( John Keane )
   Verse5: Michael
   Verse6: Michael ( spoken )
   Verse7: Michael ( plus backing vocals )
   Verse8: Michael ( plus backing vocals )
   Verse9: Bill
   Verse10: Mike
   Verse11: Michael ( spoken ) fade out

   In verse 8 there are a couple of quarter note triplet walking
   bass lines between chords, they are

   G - F# - E between G and Em
   E - D  - C between Em and C

 SOLO:

E-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
B-|-2---4/6----6bb----6b--4---6b--4---2-p-0---2-p-0---------|
G-|-----------------------------------------------------0--2--|
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------------------------------|


E-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|----------------------------------------------------0----------------------|
D-|-------0---------------0--2--0--0----------------------2--0----------------|
A-|-0--2-----3------0--2----------------0--2--0------------------2--0---------|
E-|----------------------------------------------3----------------------3-----|
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