Space Oddity

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                             Space Oddity - David Bowie
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Tabbed by: tom murphy
This is the acoustic version he plays

Tuning: standard

Any weird chords (all C are C/G):
e|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----|
B|--3-----3-----1-----1-----1-----|
G|--2-----1-----2-----2-----0-----|
D|--0-----0-----3-----2-----2-----|
A|--0-----2-----x-----0-----3-----|
E|--2-----0-----x-----3-----3-----|
  Dadd9  E7   Fmaj7  Am/G  C/G


[Intro]

Fmaj7  Em  Fmaj7  Em


[Verse]

C                       Em
Ground Control to Major Tom
C                       Em 
Ground Control to Major Tom
Am        Am/G
Take your protein pills
    Dadd9   
and put your helmet on

C                       Em 
Ground Control to Major Tom
C
Commencing countdown,
       Em
engines on
Am     Am/G
Check ig-nition
    Dadd9        N.C.
and may God's love be with you

[Take off is this chord: (Dadd9)
e|-0-------------------------------------|
B|-3-------------------------------------|
G|-2-------------------------------------|
D|-0-------------------------------------|
A|-0-------------------------------------|
E|-2-------------------------------------|

Slide this up as far as D bass (thumb) for 2 bars


[Verse]

C                                E
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
       E7                F 
You've really made the grade
        Fm             C                     F 
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
         Fm                C    
Now it's time to leave the capsule
       F
if you dare

C                           E 
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
    E7                   F  
I'm stepping through the door
        Fm
And I'm floating
       C           F
in a most peculiar way
        Fm              C           F
And the stars look very different today

    Fmaj7
For here
     Em
Am I sitting in a tin can
Fmaj7         Em 
Far above the world
Bb              Am
Planet Earth is blue
            G             F
And there's nothing I can do


[Bridge]

C   F   G    A A
C   F   G    A A

Fmaj7  Em  A  C  D*   E *
Ohhhh.......     

[Landing with these chords: (D* & E*)
e|--5---0-------0--0--0--0-----|
B|--7---0-------0--0--0--1-----|
G|--7---9-------9--\--2--0-----|
D|--0---9-------9--\--2--2-----|
A|--x---7-------7--\--0--3-----|
E|--x---0-------0--0--0--3-----|


[Verse]

C
Though I'm past
                     E 
one hundred thousand miles
    E7           F
I'm feeling very still
       Fm                C                  F
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
        Fm              C    
Tell my wife I love her very much
    F
she knows

G                 E7
Ground Control to Major Tom
     Am
Your circuit's dead,
        Am/G
there's something wrong
        Dadd9
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
        C  
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
        G
Can you hear me, Major Tom?


    Fmaj7
For here and I'm
     Em
Floating round my tin can
Fmaj7         Em 
Far above the moon
Bb              Am
Planet Earth is blue
            G             F
And there's nothing I can do


[Outro]

C   F   G    A A
C   F   G    A A

Fmaj7  Em  A  C  D    

C   F   G    A A

C   F   G    A A  
cha cha


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N.C.
| x  Dead note
N.C.
| \  Slide down

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