Heartwood Guitar Instruction



(Don't Go Back to) Rockville

REM

Capo 2

Strum: D D U U D U (folk strum)

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Intro: / D - - - / x4

D (4)

Looking at your watch at the time

/ G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

Waiting in the station for the bus

D (4)

Going to a place that's far

/ G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

So far away and if that's not enough

A G (½) F#m (½) Bm

Going where nobody says hello

Bm (½) Am (½) / G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

They don't talk to anybody they don't know

D (4)

You'll wind up in some factory

/ G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

That's full time filth and nowhere left to go

D (4)

Walk home to an empty house

/ G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

Sit around a-all by yourself

A G (½) F#m (½) Bm

I know it might sound strange but I believe

Bm (½) Am (½) / G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

you'll be coming back before too long

Chorus:

|D Em A Asus4 | |

|Don't go back to Rockville |x3 |

| |

|G (4 hold) |

|And waste another year |

D (4)

At night I drink myself to sleep

/ G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

And pretend I don't care if you're not here with me

D (4)

'Cause it's so much easier to handle

/ G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

All my problems if I'm too far out to sea

A G (½) F#m (½) Bm

But something better happen soon or it's gonna

Bm (½) Am (½) / G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

be too late to bring you back

Chorus

D (2) G (½) A (½) G (½) A (½)

It's not as though I really need you

D (2) G (½) A (½) G (½) A (½)

If you were here I'd only bleed you

Em Bm

But everybody else in town

Em Bm

Only wants to bring you down

G (2) / A - - - / - (hold) /

And that's not how it ought to be

A G (½) F#m (½) Bm

I know it might sound strange, but I believe

Bm (½) Am (½) / G - - - / Gsus4 – G - / x2

you'll be coming back before too long

Chorus x2

D (hold)

Riff at End of Chorus:

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Riff at End of Chorus (Easier Version):

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