Oddfellows Local 151 – R.E.M. – Bass cover, tabs & lyrics

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"Oddfellows Local 151" is a song by R.E.M. from their 1987 album "Document". This video will help you to learn how to play the "Oddfellows Local 151" bassline.

Guitarist Peter Buck explained to Q magazine in 1992:

"That song is actually about all these winos who used to live down the street from us. They used to live in cars. We call them the The Motor Club. These old guys would sleep in the cars and drink all the time. I think there was a guy called Pee Wee as well. Michael [Stipe] knew them because he used to live right next door to them. Every once in a while you’d give them five bucks or drop off a bottle".

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a secret society similar to the Masons or Kiwanis. At one point there was an Odd Fellows lodge in R.E.M.’s hometown of Athens, Georgia, although it is long-since closed.

The 151 is the Bacardi 151 rum.

More detailed story of the song: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rem-o...

Lyrics:

Oddfellows local 151 behind the firehouse
Where Peewee sits to prove a sage to teach
Peewee gathered up his proof
Reached up and scratched his head
Fell down and hit the ground again

Firehouse
Firehouse

Why do the heathens rage behind the firehouse
Where Peewee sits upon the wall to preach
This boy and girl that gather pearls
Of wisdom falling from his mouth
Wash off the blood, wash off the rum

Firehouse
Firehouse

Oddfellows local 151 behind the firehouse
Where Peewee sits upon the wall to preach
This boy and girl that gather pearls
Of wisdom falling from his mouth
Wash off the blood, wash off the 151

Firehouse
Firehouse
Firehouse
Firehouse
Firehouse
Firehouse.



Timecode:

00:00 – Titles & Intro (no bass)
00:18 – Intro (bass kicks in)
00:26 – Verse 1
00:59 – Chorus 1
01:16 – Verse 2
01:49 – Chorus 2
02:06 – Guitar Solo
02:22 – Interlude
02:31 – Verse 3
03:04 – Chorus 3
03:37 – Outro