{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":17025,"song":"Cygnet Committee","artist":"David Bowie","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/17025-cygnet-committee-chords-by-david-bowie/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/17025?type=chord","rating":4.94955,"votes":96,"content":"This song took me two hours to figure out. It is probably, in my opinion,\r\none of the greatest David Bowie songs. It is off of -Space Oddity- and \r\nquite a track coming in at over nine minutes. It is quite a piece moving\r\nthrough so many key changes and other things. Those are things \r\ncharacteristic of -Space Oddity-, figuring out songs off that album is \r\nquite difficult. I was quite frustrated trying to get some of it but now \r\nthat I got all of it, I am quite proud and happy I did it. I am typing \r\nthis on a word processor program that does not show any quotation or\r\napostrophe marks. So to not cause any confusion on the lyrics, I will \r\nuse a ~ for an apostrophe and ~~ for both open and closed quotation marks. \r\nI took the lyrics right off of the album and even capitalized a lot of \r\nthings that were capitalized on the album sleeve. I hope you enjoy this, \r\n(it took me a really strenuous long time to do but I did enjoy doing it\r\nanyway):\r\n\r\n\r\n CYGNET COMMITTEE\r\n by David Bowie\r\n\r\n[Verses]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nI bless you madly[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSadly as I tie my shoe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nI love you badly[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nJust in time, at times, I guess[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nBecause of you I need to rest[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBecause it~s you that sets the test[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Eb[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nSo much has gone and little is new[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bbm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd as the sparrow sings[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nDawn chorus for[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bbm[/ch] \r\nSomeone else to hear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bbm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe thinker sits alone[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nGrowing older[/tab]\r\n\r\nAnd so bitter\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\n~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fm[/ch]\r\nThey drained my very soul...dry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nI crushed my heart to ease Their pains[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fm[/ch] [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nNo thought for me remains there[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bbm[/ch] [ch]Db[/ch]\r\nNothing can they spare[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhat of me?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWho praised Their efforts to be free?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWords of strength and care and sympathy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI open doors that would have blocked their way[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI braved Their cause to guide for little pay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI ravaged at my finanace just for Those[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThose whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThose who said a new world, new ways ever free[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThose whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nI bless you madly[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSadly as I tie my shoe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nI love you badly[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nJust in time, at times, I guess[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nBecause of you I need to rest[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]Bb[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBecause it~s you that sets the test[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Eb[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nSo much has gone and little is new[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bbm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd as the sunrise stream[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nFlickers on me[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bbm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy friends talk of glory, untold dream[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nWhere all is God and God is just a word[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\n~~We had a friend, a talking man[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fm[/ch]\r\nWho spoke of many powers that he had[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Bbm[/ch]\r\nNot of the best of men but Ours[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Fm[/ch] [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nWe used him, We let him use his powers[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bbm[/ch] [ch]Db[/ch]\r\nWe let him fill our needs [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow we are strong.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the road is coming to its end[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the damned have not time to make amends[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNo purse of token fortunes stands in Our way[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe silent guns of love will blast the sky[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe broke the ruptured structure build of age[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOur weapons were tongues of crying rage[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere money stood we planted seeds of rebirth[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nInfiltrated business cesspools[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHating through Our sleeves[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nYea, and We slit the Catholic throat[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nStoned the poor on slogans as:[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n -Wish You Could Hear-\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n -Love Is All We Need-[/tab]\r\n\r\n -Kick Out The Jams-\r\n\r\n -Kick Out Your Mother-\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n -Cut Up Your Friend-[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n -Screw Up Your Brother or He~ll Get You In the End-[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd We Know the Flag of Love is from Above[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd We Can Force You to Be Free[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd We Can Force You to Believe.~~[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I close my eyes and tighten up my brain[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor I once read a book in which the lovers were slain[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor they Knew not the words of the Free States~ refrain,[/tab]\r\n\r\nIt said:\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] \r\n~~I Believe in the Power of Good[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI Believe in the State of Love[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI Will Fight For the Right to be Right[/tab]\r\n [ch]G[/ch] \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I open my eyes to look around[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I see a child laid slain on the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAs a love machine lumbers through desolation rows[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPloughing down man, woman, listening to its command[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut not hearing anymore-[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNot hearing anymore[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust the shrieks from the old rich[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I Want to Believe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the madness that calls ~Now~[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I Want to Believe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat a light is shining through somehow[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd I Want to Believe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd You Want to Believe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd We Want to Believe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd We Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nOh, We Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nWe Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe Want to Live[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n(marching-type beat configuration appears)\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nWe Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nWe Want To Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI Want to Live[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI Want to Live[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI Want to Live[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nLive[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nLive[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLive[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Chords Used Are:\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n -----------[/tab]\r\nD x x 0 2 3 x\r\nD/C x 3 x 2 3 x\r\nBm x 2 4 4 3 2\r\nBb x 1 3 3 3 x\r\nEb x 6 5 3 4 3\r\nBbm x 1 3 3 2 1\r\nA x 0 2 2 2 0\r\nF# 2 4 4 3 2 2\r\nF 1 3 3 2 1 1\r\nC x 3 2 0 1 0\r\nFm 1 3 3 1 1 1\r\nAb 4 6 6 5 4 4\r\nDb x 4 6 6 6 x\r\nAm x 0 2 2 1 0\r\nG 3 2 0 0 0 3\r\n\r\n\r\nMake sure to play the marching chords at the end in barre form.\r\n\r\nAnd that is pretty much it. Please send my email and comment if you find\r\nany errors or anything else not of that nature. Bye-bye.\r\n\r\n\r\n(This thing came out a bit screwed up, especially with the chords above the\r\nwords, but I hope you get the idea)","plain_text":"This song took me two hours to figure out. It is probably, in my opinion,\none of the greatest David Bowie songs. It is off of -Space Oddity- and \nquite a track coming in at over nine minutes. It is quite a piece moving\nthrough so many key changes and other things. Those are things \ncharacteristic of -Space Oddity-, figuring out songs off that album is \nquite difficult. I was quite frustrated trying to get some of it but now \nthat I got all of it, I am quite proud and happy I did it. I am typing \nthis on a word processor program that does not show any quotation or\napostrophe marks. So to not cause any confusion on the lyrics, I will \nuse a ~ for an apostrophe and ~~ for both open and closed quotation marks. \nI took the lyrics right off of the album and even capitalized a lot of \nthings that were capitalized on the album sleeve. I hope you enjoy this, \n(it took me a really strenuous long time to do but I did enjoy doing it\nanyway):\n\n\n CYGNET COMMITTEE\n by David Bowie\n\n[Verses]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd so bitter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAm F G\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n -Wish You Could Hear-\n\n\n -Kick Out The Jams-\n\n -Kick Out Your Mother-\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt said:\n\n\n\n\n G \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(marching-type beat configuration appears)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)\n\n\nThe Chords Used Are:\n\n\n\nD x x 0 2 3 x\nD/C x 3 x 2 3 x\nBm x 2 4 4 3 2\nBb x 1 3 3 3 x\nEb x 6 5 3 4 3\nBbm x 1 3 3 2 1\nA x 0 2 2 2 0\nF# 2 4 4 3 2 2\nF 1 3 3 2 1 1\nC x 3 2 0 1 0\nFm 1 3 3 1 1 1\nAb 4 6 6 5 4 4\nDb x 4 6 6 6 x\nAm x 0 2 2 1 0\nG 3 2 0 0 0 3\n\n\nMake sure to play the marching chords at the end in barre form.\n\nAnd that is pretty much it. Please send my email and comment if you find\nany errors or anything else not of that nature. Bye-bye.\n\n\n(This thing came out a bit screwed up, especially with the chords above the\nwords, but I hope you get the idea)","chords":["D","D/C","Bm","Bb","Eb","Bbm","A","F#","F","C","Fm","Ab","Db","Am","G","E","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"Fm":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,1,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}