Space Oddity - David Bowie
Tabs and Chords
Note - Bowie Copyright © Corrections Welcomed - Last Update 27 Nov/2001
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Key
~ tremelo/trill
b bend
r return
h hammer
p pull off
(ghost note)
/ slide up
\ slide down
. kill note

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
       

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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

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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)
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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  

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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

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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..................    

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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.....

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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

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