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The Cygnet Committee by David Bowie
The Cygnet Committee
D D/C
I bless you madly
Bm Bb D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
D/C
I love you badly
Bm Bb D D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bm Bb D D/C
Because of you I need to rest
Bm Bb D
Because it~s you that sets the test
Eb Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm A
And as the sparrow sings
F#
Dawn chorus for
Bbm
Someone else to hear
Bbm A
The thinker sits alone
F# Bbm
Growing older
And so bitter
F Bbm
~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all
C Fm
They drained my very soul...dry
F Bbm
I crushed my heart to ease Their pains
C Fm Ab
No thought for me remains there
Bbm Db
Nothing can they spare
C
What of me?
Am F
Who praised Their efforts to be free?
G C
Words of strength and care and sympathy
Am F
I open doors that would have blocked their way
G C
I braved Their cause to guide for little pay
Am F
I ravaged at my finanace just for Those
G C
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
Am F
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
G C
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~
Am F G
D D/C
I bless you madly
Bm Bb D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
D/C
I love you badly
Bm Bb D D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bm Bb D D/C
Because of you I need to rest
Bm Bb D
Because it~s you that sets the test
Eb Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm A
And as the sunrise stream
F# Bbm
Flickers on me
Bbm A
My friends talk of glory, untold dream
F# Bbm
Where all is God and God is just a word
F Bbm
~~We had a friend, a talking man
C Fm
Who spoke of many powers that he had
F Bbm
Not of the best of men but Ours
C Fm Ab
We used him, We let him use his powers
Bbm Db
We let him fill our needs
C
Now we are strong.
Am F
And the road is coming to its end
G C
Now the damned have not time to make amends
Am F
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way
G C
The silent guns of love will blast the sky
Am F
We broke the ruptured structure build of age
G C
Our weapons were tongues of crying rage
Am F
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth
G C
And stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt
Am
Infiltrated business cesspools
F
Hating through Our sleeves
G
Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat
C
Stoned the poor on slogans as:
-Wish You Could Hear-
Am
-Love Is All We Need-
-Kick Out The Jams-
-Kick Out Your Mother-
F
-Cut Up Your Friend-
G
-Screw Up Your Brother or He~ll Get You In the End-
C Am
And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above
F
And We Can Force You to Be Free
G C
And We Can Force You to Believe.~~
Am
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
F
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
G
For they Knew not the words of the Free States~ refrain,
It said:
C
~~I Believe in the Power of Good
Am
I Believe in the State of Love
F
I Will Fight For the Right to be Right
G
C
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~
Am F
And I open my eyes to look around
G
And I see a child laid slain on the ground
C Am
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
F G
Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command
C
But not hearing anymore-
Am F
Not hearing anymore
G
Just the shrieks from the old rich
C
And I Want to Believe
G
In the madness that calls ~Now~
C
And I Want to Believe
G
That a light is shining through somehow
Bb
And I Want to Believe
F
And You Want to Believe
C
And We Want to Believe
G
And We Want to Live
Ab
Oh, We Want to Live
Bb
We Want to Live
C
We Want to Live
(marching-type beat configuration appears)
G
We Want to Live
Ab
We Want to Live
Bb
We Want To Live
C
I Want to Live
G
I Want to Live
Ab
I Want to Live
Bb
I Want to Live
C
I Want to Live
G
I Want to Live
Ab
Live
Bb
Live
C
Live
(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)
The Chords Used Are:
E A D G B E
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D x x 0 2 3 x
D/C x 3 x 2 3 x
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2
Bb x 1 3 3 3 x
Eb x 6 5 3 4 3
Bbm x 1 3 3 2 1
A x 0 2 2 2 0
F# 2 4 4 3 2 2
F 1 3 3 2 1 1
C x 3 2 0 1 0
Fm 1 3 3 1 1 1
Ab 4 6 6 5 4 4
Db x 4 6 6 6 x
Am x 0 2 2 1 0
G 3 2 0 0 0 3
Make sure to play the marching chords at the end in barre form.
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