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Song title:      Bohemian Rhapsody
Original Album:	 A Night at the Opera

Words and Music by 
Copyright (c) 1975 B Feldman & Company Ltd. (Trident Music)
Published by 

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Key of Bb major. Capo on 3. Chords and tab are relative to capo.
Timing is 4/4 except where indicated.

"CHORUS", here (in ""), refers to a vocal chorus, such as you might find in
opera or, say, Greek tragedy. A group of voices singing (or reciting)
in unison or harmony. Choruses, here, are NOT the sort that you might usually
find in a song.

Similarly, "SOLO" (again, in "") refers to a single vocal part, not an
solo instrumental part.




  [Riff x2]

 (Eb)
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-6-------------------3-5-6-------|-6-----------------3-------------|-6-------------------3-5-6-------|
|-----3-------4---6---------------|-----3-------4---6---6-----------|-----3-------4---6---------------|

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

 
 (Eb)
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-6---------------3-5-6---|-6-------------3---------|-6---------------3-5-6---|
|-----3---4---6-----------|-----3---4---6---6-------|-----3---4---6-----------|

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

 

  2nd ending

 (F)
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5-----------------2-------------|-5-------------------3-4-5-------|
|-----2-------3---5---5-----------|-----2-------3---5---------------|

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


 (F)
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5-------------2-----------------|-5---------------3-4-5-----------|
|-----2---3---5---5---------------|-----2---3---5-------------------|

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





INTRO:
Notes:
On the recording, this is sung a cappella by May, Mercury and Taylor
(in harmony).

The chords below are not played by an instrument but are harmonically
correct for Mercury's voice. As a solo guitar, you might want to arpeggiate
these to back up your voice.


Chords:
Bb6




4/4                                            5/4                             4/4
| Bb6                   | C7      Bb6  C7      | F7          Cm7  F7           | G         Cm7  G
  Is this the real life?  Is this just fantasy?  Caught in a land-slide, no es - cape from re - ality

| Em                  | G7                 | C
  Open your eyes, look  up to the skies and  see




"SOLO":
Chords:
Am  x02210    Gb      244322    D/A  x00232 or 55777x
D7  xx0212    C       x32010    D    xx0232
Ab  466544    G/B     x20003
G   355433    Bbdim7  x4535x


                      5/4
| Am                  | D7
  I'm just a poor boy,  I need no sympathy

           4/4
           | Ab   G     Gb    G | Ab     G     Gb     G
Because I'm  easy come, easy go,  little high, little low

| C           G/B       | Bbdim          D/A      | D     | G | %
  Any way the wind blows  doesn't really matter to  me, to  me





VERSE1:
Chords:
G   3x0003    Ab+   x3211x              C    x32010    F/C    x33211
Em  022000    C/G#  4x555x              G/B  x20003    Cdim   x3424x
Am  x02210    D/F#  2x023x or x9777x    Dm   xx0231    Dm7/C  x3323x or 8877xx
D   xx0232    Dm/F  x8776x              Fm   xx656x


4/4
| G         | Em
  Mama, just  killed a man

     | Am                             | %                 D
Put a  gun against his head, pulled my  trigger, now he's dead

| G             | Em
  Mama, life had  just begun

   | Am                Ab+       C/G#    | D/F#  Dm/F
But  now I've gone and thrown it all   a - way

| C     G/B  | Am         | Dm
  Mama, ooh____ooh, didn't  mean to make you cry

  | G                               | C
If  I'm not back again this time to - morrow

      G/B      | Am       Fm            | C       F/C    C
Carry on, carry  on as if nothing really  matters


2/4
| Cdim   Dm7/C  | G | %





VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
G    3x0003    Am7   x02010    Dm/F  x8776x    
Em   022000    Ab+   x3211x    C     x32010
Am   x02210    C/G   3x2010    G/B   x20003
D    xx0232    D/F#  2x023x    Dm    xx0231 or xx323x


4/4
| G           | Em
  Too late, my  time has come

     | Am                           | D
Sends  shivers down my spine, body's  aching all the time

| G                       | Em
  Goodbye, everybody, I've  got to go

     | Am7             Ab+      C/G     | D/F#   Dm/F
Gotta  leave you all behind and face the  truth

C     G/B  | Am
Mama, ooh____ooh  (Any way the wind blows)

| Dm                  | G                                    | C    G/B
  I don't wanna die, I  sometimes wish I'd never been born at  all



[GUITAR INSTRUMENTAL LINK]



OPERATIC PART:
Chords:
B/F#   2x444x
Gb     244322
Gbdim  x3424x


| B/F# Gb    Gbdim  Gb     | B/F# Gb   Gbdim
  I    see a little silhou - etto of a man

| Gb   B/F#    Gb   B/F#    Gb      | Gbdim  Gb  B/F#  Gb
  Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you  do the Fan-dan - go?



"CHORUS":
Chords:
Bb/F  11333x              Db  x46664
F     133211              C   x35553
A/E   002220 or 077650


| Bb/F            F         | A/E        Db         | C
  Thunderbolt and lightning,  very, very frightening  me

                                                          2/4          4/4
N.C.          | %                     | %                 | %          | %
(Galileo) Gali-leo, (Gali - leo) Gali - leo, Galileo Figa - ro magnifi - co________




"SOLO":
Chords:
Ab  466544
G   355433
Gb  244322

| Ab  G      Gb   G   | Ab G    Gb    G    
  I'm just a poor boy,  no-body loves me




"CHORUS":
Chords:
F/C   x33211    F    xx3211    G       3x0003
C     x32010    C/E  032010    Ebdim7  x3424x
Cmb5  xx454x    D    xx0232    Dm7     x3323x or x57565


| F/C    C      Cmb5   F    F/C    C    Cmb5   C
  He's   just a poor   boy  from a poor fami - ly

| F             C/E           | D         G  | F   C/E   Ebdim7  Dm7
  Spare him his life from this  monstrosi-ty



 
"SOLO":
Chords:
Ab  466544    Gb  244322
G   355433    C   x3555x


| Ab   G     Gb   G  | Ab       G      Gb  G   | C
  Easy come, easy go,  will you let me go? Bis - millah!




"CHORUS":
Chords:
G    355433              Gb   244222
C    x3555x              B    x24442
Eb7  x6868x or xx1323    Bb   x8876x or xx333x
Abm  466444              Eb   xx888x


      | G    C               C      |
No, we  will not let you go (Let him  go!) 

           G  |                       C      |
Bismillah! We   will not let you go. (Let him go!)

           G  | %                           |
Bismillah! We   will not let you go. (Let me go)

           G  |                       C     |
Bismillah! We   will not let you go. (Let me go)

         C                 | %
Will not let you go (Let me  go)                       | Eb7
                                                (Let me  go)
                             Will not let you go         Ah.________


| Abm Gb  B   Bb | Eb  G   C
  No, no, no, no,  no, no, no




"SOLO":


 N.C.   |
(Oh mama  mia, mama mia.)




"CHORUS":
Chords:
C    x3555x    Em   022000    Bb   x8876x or xx333x
G    355433    D    xx0212    Dm   xx323x or xx0231
F    xx3211    G7   353433    Dm7  x3323x or x57565
B    x24442    C/G  33555x    


C   |             G      | C     F        | B          Em
Mama  mia, let me go. Be - el-ze-bub has a  devil put aside for me, for me, for me

   | C     F        | B          Em       | G     | %      | %        | C | % | % | D7
Be - el-ze-bub has a  devil put aside for  me, for  me, for  me.______


[GUITAR LINK II]

                                                            2/4
| G7         C/G          | G           C         | G      | Bb
      So you think you can  stop me and spit in my  eye___

4/4
| G7         C/G          | G           C          | F
      So you think you can  love me and leave me to  die____

| Dm     | G        | Dm                     | G
  Oh,___   baby,___      can't do this to me,  baby,____


| Dm7            G   | Dm7            G          | C    | % | G7 | %
  Just gotta get out,  just gotta get right outta  here.                [Riff]



GUITAR SOLO over:

Chords:
C     x32010    E7/G#  476754
G/B   x20003    G7     353433
Am    x02210    Em     022000
E/G#  476454    F      xx3211

4/4| C  G/B | Am  E/G#  Am

   | E7/G#  Am  G7  C 

   | B  Em | F  C |



OUTRO:
Chords:
Am      x02210    C      x3555x    Gm/Bb   x10333
Em      022000    F/C    x33211    A7      x02020
Fm      xx656x    Cdim7  x3424x    A7(b9)  x02323
G9sus4  x55565    G/B    x20003    D       xx0232





Fm7b5  4x344x


| Am             Em      | Am         Em
  Nothing really matters,  anyone can see

| Am             Fm
  Nothing really matters

| G9sus4                   | C    F/C
  Nothing really matters to  me


          
[play: 4/4| C  Cdim7 | G/B  Gm/Bb | A7  A7(b9) | A7  D



ENDING:
Chords:
G      3x0003
D/F#   2x023x
Dm7b5  x5656x or x3313x or xx0111
Em7    020000
D      xx0232


| G   D/F#    Dm7b5  Em7     | D
  Any way the wind   blows...