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Space Oddity Fade in with Fmaj7 and Em7 |:C |Em | Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom |C |Em | Ground control to Major Tom Commencing countdown engine's on |Am Am7/G |D7/F# :| Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Check ignition and may God's love be with you |:C |E7 | This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade..... This is Major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door |F |Fm C/E | ... And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear, ... And I'm floating in the most peculiar way |F |Fm C/E | ... Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare ... and the stars look very different today... |F :| ...... For |Fmaj7 |Em7 | here am I sitting in a tin can |Fmaj7 |Em7 | far above the world |Bbmaj7 Am7 |G |F | Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do C F G A A x2 Fmaj7 Em7 A/E C/A D/E Esus4 |0-x--1-1-1-3--3-3-5---5---|----------0---0---0--0---0----0----- |1-x--1-1-2-3--3-3-5---5---|------012-1---0---2--1---3----0----- |0-x--2-2-2-4--4-4-6---6---|----02----2---0---2--0---2----2----- |2-x--3-3-3-5--5-5-7---7---|-023------3---0---2--2---2----2----- |3-------------------------|3-guess-------2---0--0--------2----- |--------------------------|--------------0---0-----------0----- (the above is my 1st go, after watching the video Bowie seems to play) C F G A A Fmaj7 Em7 A/E C/E D9/E Esus4 |---------------|-------------------|-0--0---0---0---0----0- |8---x-1---1-3-3|----5---5-------012|-1--3---5---8---10---0- or |9---x-2---2-4-4|----6---6-----02---|-2--4---6---9---11---2- continue |10--x-3---3-5-4|----7---7--023-----|-3--5---7---10--10---2- to 12th pos |10--x-3---3-5-4|----7---7-3--------|-3--5---7---10--12---2- |---------------|----------(2nd time|----0---0---0---0----0- 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 Fmaj7 Em7 A C D9 E Another way could be |----------0--0---0-7-0---0-12-0-14- <-use 4th finger |----------1--3---5---8---10---12--- to add a bit |----------2--4---6---9---11---13--- of colour. |----------3--5---7---10--10---14--- keep going to |----------x--x---0---x---x----x-0-- 17th 19th for |----------x--0---x---8---10---0---- outro. use thumb Solo - with thanks to Greg Macmillan Fmaj7 Em7 A C D9 E ------------|----------|----5-------|------------|----------------|------------ 1-3-1-------|----------|---5-8~-5---|-5h6p5----5\|---10-12-10----7\------------ ------2~p0h2|--0-2-0---|-56------6--/5~-----5-5\-/11-11-12----7-7\|------------ ------------|2------2--|7---------7-|--------7---|-------------9--|------------ ------------|--------0-|------------|------------|----------------|------------ ------------|----------|------------|------------|----------------|12-12-10/3p0 |C |E7 | Though I'm past 100 thousand miles......., I'm feeling very still.. |F |Fm C/E | ... And I think my spaceship knows which way to go |F |Fm C/E | ... tell my wife I love her very much, she knows.. |F :| ..... |G E7 |Am Am7/G | Ground control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead there's something wrong Can you |D7/G |C/G | hear me Major Tom? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you |G |Fmaj7 (as above) hear me Major Tom? Can you Here am I ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed Strum Asus2 Gsus2 Em7 Asus2 Gsus2 Dsus2 |0----0----|0--------|0----0---|0--------| |0----0----|3--------|0----0---|3--------| |2----0----|0--------|2----0---|2--------| |2----2----|2--------|2----2---|0--------| |0----0----|---------|0----0---|---------| |-----3----|---------|-----3---|---------| |Asus2 Gsus2 |Em7 |Asus2 Gsus2 |Dsus2 |Asus2 | Spy, spy, pretty girl I see you see me through your window Don't turn your nose up Well, you can if you need to, you won't be the first or last |F | | | It must strain you to look down so far from your |C | |D C | father's house And I know what a louse like |C A |Am Am7 | me in his house could do for you |E |Em |C F |C F C | I'm the cream of the great utopia dream and |E |Em |D C |C F C | you're the gleam in the depths of your banker's spleen |C | F C | I'm a phallus in pigtail And there's blood on my nose And my tissue is rotting Where the rats chew my bones And my |F | Bb F | eye sockets empty Seeing nothing but pain I keep |C | F C | having this brainstorm About twelve times a day So now |G |Am |Bb |C | you could spend the morning walking with me, quite amazed as I'm |F |Fm |C | F C | unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Letter To Hermione Cmaj7 Am7 (open) Em7sus4 Am7 A7sus2 |------------|----------------|0------------|---------------|0-----------| |------------|----------------|0------------|---------------|0-----------| |------------|----------------|2------------|---------------|0-2/4-------| |------0-2~--|------0-2-4/5~--|0--4-2-2~----|------0-2-4/5~-|2-----5p2~--| |0-2-3-------|0-2-3-----------|2------------|0-2-3----------|0-----------| |------------|----------------|0------------|---------------|------------| D7 D6/A Cmaj7 C/G G |2---0---------------------------------------|0----------------0-----0-----0-| |1---1---------------------------------------|0----------------1-----1-----1-| |2---2-strum---------------------------------|0----------------0-----0-----0-| |0---0---------------------------------------|2----------------2-2-2-0-0-0-0-| |----0---------------------------------------|3----------------3-3-3-2-2-2-x-| |--------------------------------------------|-----------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-| The hand that wrote this letter sweeps the pillow clean So rest your head and read a treasured dream |A7sus4 (X02030) |Cmaj7 | I care for no one else but you I tear my soul to cease the |Am7/G (3X2010) |Em7sus4 | pain I think maybe you feel the same What can we |A7sus2 |Am7/G |Cmaj7 do? I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do |A7sus4 |A7sus2 Em | So I've been writing just for you (This is the second time I've had a go at this. There are of of open chords, sus2 and sus4. I think above is closer than the first) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cygnet Committee Intro D D/C G/B Gm/Bb |---------------------8-9-10-13---10---- 2---2--3---3-- |------------------------------------etc 3---3--3---3-- |--------------------------------------- 2---2--0---0-- |--------------------------------------- 0---x--x---x-- |-------8------8------------------------ ----3--2---1-- |8-9-10-----10-----10------------------- -------------- |D D/C |G/B G/Bb | I bless you madly Sadly as... I tie my shoes I love you badly Just in time, at times, I guess Because of you I need to rest Because it's you that sets the test |D |Eb | So much has gone and |Bbm | | little is new And as the |A |Gb | sparrow sings dawn chorus for.................. sunrise stream flickers on |Bbm | | Someone else to hear The thinker me, my friends talk of glory |A |Gb | sits alone growing old.................... untold dream were all is God and |Bbm | and so tired God is just a word |F |Bbm C | I gave them life, I gave them all... They drained my very We had a friend a talking man.... Who spoke of many |Fm |F | soul... dry I crushed my heart to ease their pains powers he had Not of the best of men but ours |Bbm C |Fm Ab | No thought for me remains there We used him we let him use his powers We |Bbm Db |C C/B | Nothing can they spare What of me? let him fill our needs now we are strong |Am |F | Who praised their efforts to be free And the road is coming to it's end |G |C C/B | Words of strength and care and sympathy Now the damned have no time to make amends |Am |F | I open doors ... blocked their way I braved No purse of token fortune stands in our way The |G |C C/B | their cause to guide for little pay silent guns of love will blast the sky |Am |F | I ravaged at my finance just for those those whose We broke the ruptured structures built of age Our |Gsus4 G |C C/B | claims were steeped in peace tranquillity those who weapons were the tongues of crying rage where |Am |F | said a new world, new ways ever free Those whose promises stretched in money stood we planted seeds of rebirth and |G |C C/B | hope and grace for me stabbed the backs of fathers sons of dust |Am |F | (instrumental) | infiltrated business cesspools hating through our sleeves Yes and we |G :| (instrumental) (back to start) slit the catholic throat, stoned the poor on |C C/B |Am | slogans such as Wish you were hear Kick out the Jams Kick out your mother Love is all we need |F |G | Cut Up Your Friend or he'll get you in the end And we Screw Up Your Brother |C C/B |Am | know the flag of love is from above And we can |F |G | force you to be free And we can force you to believe |C |Am | And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain for I once read a book in which the |F |G | lovers were slain for they knew not the words of the free states refrain, It said |C C/B |Am | I believe in the power of good I believe in the state of love I will fight |F |G | for the right to be right I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be |C C/B |Am | right And I open my eyes to look around |F |Gsus4 G | And I see a child laid slain on the ground |C |Am | As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows |F |G | Ploughing down man, woman listening to its command But not |C C/B |Am Fsus4 | hearing anymore not hearing anymore Just the |Gsus4 G | | shrieks from the old rich and I want to believe |C |G | in the madness that calls now And I want to believe |C |G | That a light's shining through somehow and I want to be- |Bb |F | -lieve and you want to be-lievve and we want to |C |:G | believe And we want to live Oh, we want to |Ab |Bb | live we want to live we want to |C :|(repeat from G above) live we want to ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Janine Second time D C G C D X3 D C G C D |2--2-2--2-0--0-0--0-1-1-1-0-0-0-2---|/10-8\7-------------------------------| |3--3-3--3-1--1-1--1-0-0-0-1-1-1-3---|--------10---/10-8-------10---8----10-| |2--2-2--2-0--0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2---|-------------------10-9---10---9---11-| |0--0-0--0-2--2-2--2-0-0-0-2-2-2-0---|---------------------------10---10-12-| |----------3--3-3--3-----------------|--------------------------------------| |------------------------------------|--------------------------------------| Oh my |:D D |F#m G | love Janine I'm helpless for your smile strange demand to 'collocate' my mind |E E7 |A G | Like a Polish wanderer I travel ever on- wards to your scares me into gloom you're too intense I'll have to keep you in your |D -2h3p2-2---0-----------|A G | | ---------------3-------| land And were it not just for the jewels I'd close your place Oh I've no defence, I've got to keep my veil on my |F#m :| hand Your face |D D |G C G | Janine, Janine you'd like to know me well But I've Janine, Janine you'd like to crash the walls But |C G |F C |Intro got things inside my head that even I can't face if you take an axe to me you'll kill another man not me at all ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An Occasional Dream Am7 pluck then Bm |0--------0--------0-------0---etc---|--------------------------------------| |1--------3--------1-------3---------|--------------2--3--------------------| |0--------0--------0-------0---------|--------0-2-4----4---4----------------| |2--------2--------2-------2---------|2---4------------4-------4---4h5---4--| |0--------3--------0-------3---------|--------------------------------------| |------------------------------------|--------------------------------------| |------------------------------------|--------------------------------------| A D F#m |------------------------------------|2-----------------2-------------------| |------------------5--------5--5-5---|3-----------------2-------------------| |2-----------------6--------6--6-6---|2-----------------2-------------------| |-------2h4----5---7--------7--7-7-5-|0-----------------4-------------------| |------------------------------------|------------------4-------------------| |------------------------------------|------------------2-------------------| I recall how we lived On the talk with our eyes Of the Am C/G Csus4 |0------------------0----------------|0-------------------------------------| |1------------------1----------------|3-------------------------------------| |2------------------0----------------|0-------------------------------------| |2------------------2----------------|2-------------------------------------| |0------------------3----------------|3-------------------------------------| |-------------------3----------------|--------------------------------------| corner of a bed And we'd speak of a Swedish room sweetness in our lives And tomorrows rich surprise......... G Eb Eb/Bb (F A) |3----------------------------------|-------------------------------------| |0----------------------------------|6-------------6----------------------| |0----------------------------------|6-------------6----------------------| |0----------------------------------|6-------------6----------------------| |x----------------------------------|4-------------4----------------------| |3----------------------------------|--------------4-bass-----------------| of hessian and wood And we'd some things we could do (2nd time play F A) C C\G C In our madness We burnt one hundred days Time takes time to pass And I still hold some ashes Eb F7 (back to intro) to me.............. An Occasional Dream Outro Eb F7 Time.... an Occasional dream of mine.... an Occasional dream of Ab Bb A Dsus2 D/C G/B G/Bb A7sus4 (not sure of this) mine... an Occasional dream... of mine.................. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud Chords (Intro) in verse D D/C# D/C D?/B Gm/Bb C E7sus2 E7 A ?/Bb |2------2-------2------2-------3-----0----0-----0--- -0-----3- |3------3-------3------3-------3-----1----0-----3--- -2-----2- |2------2-------2------0-------0-----0----2-----1--- -2-----0- |0------x-------x------x-------------2----0-----2--- -2-----x- |------4-------3------2-------1------3----2-----2--- -0-----1- |-pick the bass note and strum the chord--0-----0--- --------- |D D/C# |D/C D/B | Solemn faced the village settles down, undetected by the Staring through the message in his eyes lies a solitary son |Gm/Bb |A ?/Bb | stars And the hangman plays the mandolin be- .... from the mountain called the freecloud where the |D D/C# |D/C D/B | -fore he goes to sleep and the last thing on his eagle dare not fly, and the patience in his |Gm/Bb |A ?/Bb | mind is the wildeyed boy imprisoned neath the sigh gives no indication for the |D D/C# |D/C D/B | covered wooden shaft, folds the rope into it's townsmen to decide, so the village dreadful |Gm/Bb |A ?/Bb | bag Blows his pipe of smoulders, blankets yawns Pronouncing gross diversion as the |D D/C# |D/C D/B | smoke into the room, and the day will end for label for the dog Oh it's the madness in his |Gm/Bb |C C/G | some As the night begins for eyes As he breaks the night to cry it's really |G/F |E7sus2 E7 :| one (back to start) Second time |:D D/C# |D/C D/B | me............................... really you and really be............................... really you and really free.........................................................|(to next bit*) |Gm/Bb |A ?/Bb :| me........... It's so hard for us to really me........... You'll lose me though I'm always really *|C | And the |:C | |C7 | | mountain moved it's eyes to the world of realised Where the village dreadful cried as the moat began to rise For the |Bb |Ab |C |E7 :| snow had saved a place for the wildeyed boy from free cloud And the smile stayed on the face of the wildeyed boy from freecloud And the |G |C | women once proud clutched the heart of the crowd As the boulders smashed down from the mountains hand And the |Am |C | magic in the stare of the wildeyed boy said stop Free Cloud, they won't think to cut me |E7sus4 |E7 | down, no, no, no But the |:C/G F |C F | cottages fell like a playing card hell and the trembling down to the rumbling ground and the |Bb F |C :| tears on the face of the wise boy came missionary mystic of peace love |D D/C# |D/C D/B | Stumbled back to cry among the clouds |Gm/Bb |A ?/Bb | Kicking back the pebbles from the |D D/C# D/C D/B Gm/Bb |C Free Cloud mountain's track........ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ God Knows I'm Good G C C F C Am Am/G Dsus2/B Am7 Am7/G |-----3-------------|------3------------|x2 -0--0---0-------3---0-- |---------0-----1-1-|----------0----1-1-| -1--1---3-------1---1-- |---0-------0---0-0-|----0-------0--2-0-| -2--2---2-------2---0-- |--0------------2-2-|---0-----------3-2-| -2--2---x-------2---2-- |---------------3-3-|---------------3-3-| -0--x---2-------0---0-- |3------------------|3------------------| ----3---------------3-- I was |:Am Am7/G |Dsus2/B Am7 | walking through the counters of a national concern And a saw the multitude of faces, honest, rich and clean As the |F C |G C C :| cash machine was spitting by my shoulder And I merchandise exchanged and money roared And a |:C G |Am Am7/G | woman hot with worry slyly slipped a tin of a stewing steak face was white with fear in case her actions were observed So she |D/A (Dsus2) C |G C C :| into the paper bag at her side and her closed her eyes to keep her conscience blind crying |:Am Am/G |Am/F# Am/F | God knows I'm good, God knows I'm good |F E |Am |C/G | God knows I'm good, God may look the other way to- |E :| -day..... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Memory Of A Free Festival |G 3/4 time |Dm7 | The children of the summer's end |Em |Am | Gathered in the dampened grass We |Bm |Bb | played Our songs and felt the London sky |C |G | Resting on our hands It was God's land It was |C |G | ragged and naïve It was heaven |Dm7 |--------3---0---| |1-----1---------| |----------------| |----------------| |----------------| |----------------| |G |Dm7 | Touch, we touched the very soul of |Em |Am | holding each and every life We |Bm |Bb | claimed the very source of joy ran through It |C |G | didn't, but it seemed that way I |C |G | kissed a lot of people that day |Eb | | |C 4/4 time |C Em | Oh, to capture just one drop of all |C7 Am7 |F6 (xx0211) | ...... the ecstasy that swept that afternoon To |G F |C | paint that love upon a white balloon..... And |C Em |C7 Am7 | fly it from the toppest top of all the tops that man has pushed be- |F6 |G F | -yond his brain Satorri must be something just the |C A | same We |D F#m |D7 Bm7 | scanned the skies with rainbow eyes and saw machines of every shape and |G6 (320000) |A G | size We talked with tall Venusians passing |D |D F#m | through And Peter tried to climb aboard but the |D7 Bm7 |G6 | Captain shook his head And away they soared |A G |D | Climbing through the ivory vibrant cloud |A G |D | Someone passed some bliss among the crowd and we |A G |G6 | walked back to the road, un-chained the power chords D5 (x57xxx) C5 (x35xxxx) G5 (35xxxx) D5 (x35xxx) | | | The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party ah ah huh ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++