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Song title:       Space Oddity
Original Album:	  David Bowie(1969)/Space Oddity

Words and Music by David Bowie
Copyright © 1969 EMI Records Limited
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Chords:
C/G 332010
Em  022000


[play: | C/G | Em |]  [x2]



VERSE1:
Chords:
C/G 332010    Am/G  302210
Em  022000    D/F#  2x0232
Am  x02210


| C/G                     | Em
    Ground Control to Major Tom,

| C/G                     | Em
    Ground Control to Major Tom,

| Am        | Am/G            | D/F#
    Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.



VERSE2:
Chords:
C/G 332010    Am/G  302210
Em  022000    D/F#  2x0232
Am  x02210


| C/G                     | Em
    Ground Control to Major Tom

| C/G                           | Em
    Commencing countdown, engines on

| Am      | Am/G         | D/F#
    Check ignition and may God's love be with you.



VERSE3:
Chords:
C/G 332010    F  x33211
E7  020130    Fm x33111


| C/G                           | E7
  This is Ground Control to Major Tom,

                     | F
You've really made the grade

      | Fm           | C/G                 | F
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

       | Fm              | C/G          | F
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare



VERSE4:
Chords:
C/G 332010    F  x33211
E7  020130    Fm x33111


| C/G                          | E7
  This is Major Tom to Ground Control

                       | F
I'm stepping through the door

      | Fm          | C/G         | F
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

      | Fm            | C/G       | F
And the stars look very different today.



BRIDGE:
Chords:
Fmaj7  x03210    Am x02210
Em7    020030    G  320033
Bb7    x13131    F  x33211


  | Fmaj7   | Em7
For here am I floating in a tin-can

| Fmaj7         | Em7
  Far   above the world,

| Bb7           | Am             | G           | F
  Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...


[play: "Space Oddity Figure"]

"Space Oddity Figure"

 C/G  F       G       A            C/G  F       G       A
|-0---1---1---3-3-----0-0-0____---|-0---1---1---3-3-----0-0-0____---|
|-1---1---1---3-3-----2-2-2____---|-1---1---1---3-3-----2-2-2____---|
|-0---2---2---0-0-----2-2-2____---|-0---2---2---0-0-----2-2-2____---|
|-2---3---3---0-0-----2-2-2____---|-2---3---3---0-0-----2-2-2____---|
|-3---3---3---2-2-----0-0-0____---|-3---3---3---2-2-----0-0-0____---|
|-3-----------3-3-----------------|-3-----------3-3-----------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


Chords:
Fmaj7 x33210    C/E 032010
Em7   020030    D/E 000232 or x7777x
A     x02220    E   022100



[INSTRUMENTAL over following chords: 4/4| Fmaj7 | Em7 | A | C/E | D/E | E |]



VERSE5:
Chords:
C/G 332010    F  x33211
E7  020130    Fm x33111


| C/G                           | E7
  This is Ground Control to Major Tom,

                     | F
You've really made the grade

      | Fm           | C/E                 | F
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.

       | Fm              | C/G          | F
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.



VERSE6:
Chords:
C/G 332010    F  x33211    C/E 032010
E7  020130    Fm x33111


| C/G                                | E7
  Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles,

               | F
I'm feeling very still,

    | Fm               | C/E              | F
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

      | Fm            | C/G         | F
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows

 

CODA:
Chords:
G   320003    Am/G  3x2210
E7  020130    D/F#  2x0232
Am  x02210    C/G   332010


| G               | E7
  Ground Control to Major Tom,

   | Am                    | Am/G
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong.

      | D/F#
Can you hear me, Major Tom?

      | C/G
Can you hear me, Major Tom?

      | G
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you...


| Fmaj7   | Em7
  Here I am floating round my tin-can,

| Fmaj7       | Em7
  Far above the Moon,

| Bb7           | Am             | G           | F
  Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...


[repeat "Space Oddity Figure"] [x2]