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Song title:       Rock God
Original Album:	  Western Skies

Words and Music by Roddy Frame
Copyright © 2006 Redemption Records Limited
Published by Redemption Records Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was transcribed from a performance at Ronnie Scott's on 29 May 2005,
so make of it what ye may... It was an early outing for the song before
it was recorded.

If you have an acoustic 12-str., this will sound spot on.

Key to tab
----------
h - hammer-on



INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2] 

Guitar Figure 1

         Am7                               D7sus4 - D7
|---------3---3---3---------------|---------3-------2-2-2-----------|
|---------1---1---1---------------|---------1-------1-1-1-----------|
|---------0---0---0-----------0h2-|---------2-------2-2-2---------0-|
|---------2---2---2-------2h4-----|-0-------0-------0-0-0---0h2h4---|
|-0-------0---0---0---------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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



VERSE1:
Notes:
* play the A7 as indicated i.e. as x02223.

Chords:
D7      xx0212    B7   xx1202
G       320033    Em   022000
D7sus4  xx0213    A7*  x02223


| D7                             | G               | D7sus4    D7 | B7   Em 
    Think I know the answer to the missing loot, a   stumbling cat  in a satin suit.

| D7sus4       D7              | G         A7*    | D7sus4  D7
    Mysterious dancer blanks the starshine out with his     shout.



VERSE2:
Chords:
D7      xx0212    B7   xx1202
G       320033    Em   022000
D7sus4  xx0213    A7*  x02223


| D7                             | G                  | D7sus4 D7  | B7       Em 
    Unicorns with locking horns surround the source of  cosmic rays  that the day distorts.

| D7sus4          D7        | G       A7*          | D7sus4 D7 - B7
    Fighting over territories lost in space, it's a  shut   case



BRIDGE:
Notes:

Fill1
|---------|
|---------|
|-----0h2-|
|-0h2-----|
|---------|
|---------|


Chords:
Em      022000    G   320033
Am7     x02013    C7  335353 or 8 10 8988
D7sus4  x00213    B7  x24242 or 797877
D7      x00212


| Em                   [Fill1] Am7
    Hippy glam intruder crept      past the towers where children slept

| D7sus4                   D7               | G     C7 - B7 |
    And scattered stardust trails between the blocks.

| Em                         [Fill]
    Clashing swords in city streets     

| Am7                          | %
     To a double drummers' beat,   as on the corner lovers meet

  | D7sus4            N.C.         | %       
And kiss  just as the power stops, beneath the chemist's frozen clock



[play: Guitar Figure 1] [x2]  [as per INTRO; lead into VERSE]



VERSE3:
Chords:
D7      xx0212    B7   xx1202
G       320033    Em   022000
D7sus4  xx0213    A7*  x02223


| D7                       | G                  | D7sus4     D7   B7    Em 
    I was set in motion by a half-tone shift and  in     its wake I was cast adrift

| D7sus4          D7          | G          A7*     | D7sus4 D7     B7
    With my magic potion and my glittering gift, I   had    lift   off



BRIDGE2:
Notes:
Gmaj7/6 is U.S. notation for Gmaj7add6.
G6/9 is U.S. notation for G6add9.


Fill1
|---------|
|---------|
|-----0h2-|
|-0h2-----|
|---------|
|---------|


Chords:
Em      022000    G   320033               G6add9  x02003
Am7     x02013    C7  335353               Cmaj7   x32000
D7sus4  x00213    B7  x24242 and xx1202    Gmaj7/6 x54000
D7      x00212    D6  xx0202


| Em                             [Fill1]
     I swallowed hard and feeling warm,

| Am7
     I swear I saw the world transform

| D7sus4             D7                 | G    C7 - B7 |
     Into a realm of hawks and snakes and doves.


| Em                      [Fill1] Am7
     Beautiful blue jaguar,          tethered to a shooting star

| G6/9
     Before I knew I flew too far


 | D7sus4
In time   I heard the deafening roar

    | D7                  D6         B7        | Cmaj7 | Gmaj7/6 |
As my lines blurred and I slipped on through the door.



[play: | Cmaj7 | Gmaj7/6 |]  [a few times]



CODA:
Chords:
G  320033    D7sus4 xx0213
Em 022000    D7     xx0212
Bm x24432


        | G 
Thank you for the moon

        | Em
Thank you for the stars

            | Bm         | D7sus4 D7 |
Thank you for turning them on


[repeat CODA]  [x3]   [Last time go to ENDING]



ENDING:
Notes:
RF's version of "Space Oddity riff" (in G)...

                              G         Cadd9   D         G
|-----------------------------3-3-|-3---3-3-----2-2-------3-3-3____-|
|-----------------------------3-3-|-3---3-3-----3-3-------3-3-3____-|
|-----------------------------0-0-|-0---0-0-----2-2-------0-0-0____-|
|-----------------------------0-0-|-0---2-2-----0-0-------0-0-0____-|
|-----------------------------2-2-|-2---3-3---------------2-2-2____-|
|-----------------------------3-3-|-3---------------------3-3-3____-|

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