Cygnet Commitee Uke tab by David Bowie

15 Chords used in the song: D, D/C, Bm, Bb, Eb, Bbm, A, F#, F, C, Fm, Ab, Db, Am, G

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4.9
(Intermediate)
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D D            D/C D/C
I bless you madly
Bm Bm Bb Bb D D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
D/C D/C
I love you badly
Bm Bm Bb Bb D D D/C D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bm Bm Bb Bb D D D/C D/C
Because of you I need to rest
Bm Bm Bb Bb D D
Because it~s you that sets the test

Eb Eb Bbm Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm Bbm A A
And as the sparrow sings
F# F#
Dawn chorus for
Bbm Bbm
Someone else to hear
Bbm Bbm A A
The thinker sits alone
F# F# Bbm Bbm
Growing older

And so bitter

F F Bbm Bbm
~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all
C C Fm Fm
They drained my very soul...dry
F F Bbm Bbm
I crushed my heart to ease Their pains
C C Fm Fm Ab Ab
No thought for me remains there
Bbm Bbm Db Db
Nothing can they spare
C C
What of me?

Am Am F F
Who praised Their efforts to be free?
G G C C
Words of strength and care and sympathy
Am Am F F
I open doors that would have blocked their way
GC
I braved Their cause to guide for little pay
Am Am F F
I ravaged at my finanace just for Those
G G C C
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
Am Am F F
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
G G C C
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~

Am Am F F G G


D D D/C D/C
I bless you madly
Bm BmBb Bb D D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
D/C D/C
I love you badly
Bm Bm Bb Bb D D D/C D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bm BmBb Bb D D D/C D/C
Because of you I need to rest
Bm Bm Bb Bb D D
Because it~s you that sets the test

Eb Eb Bbm Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm Bbm A A
And as the sunrise stream
F# F#Bbm Bbm
Flickers on me
Bbm Bbm A A
My friends talk of glory, untold dream
F# F# Bbm Bbm
Where all is God and God is just a word

F F Bbm Bbm
~~We had a friend, a talking man
C C Fm Fm
Who spoke of many powers that he had
F F Bbm Bbm
Not of the best of men but Ours
C C Fm Fm Ab Ab
We used him, We let him use his powers
Bbm BbmDb Db
We let him fill our needs
C C
Now we are strong.

Am Am F F
And the road is coming to its end
G G C C
Now the damned have not time to make amends
Am AmF F
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way
G G C C
The silent guns of love will blast the sky

Am AmF F
We broke the ruptured structure build of age
GC
Our weapons were tongues of crying rage
Am AmF F
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth
G G C C
And stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt

Am Am
Infiltrated business cesspools
F F
Hating through Our sleeves
G G
Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat
C C
Stoned the poor on slogans as:


-Wish You Could Hear-
Am Am
-Love Is All We Need-

-Kick Out The Jams-

-Kick Out Your Mother-
F F
-Cut Up Your Friend-
G G
-Screw Up Your Brother or He~ll Get You In the End-

CAm
And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above
F F
And We Can Force You to Be Free
G G C C
And We Can Force You to Believe.~~

Am Am
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
F F
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
G G
For they Knew not the words of the Free States~ refrain,

It said:

C C
~~I Believe in the Power of Good
Am Am
I Believe in the State of Love
F F
I Will Fight For the Right to be Right
G G
C C
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~

Am Am F F
And I open my eyes to look around
G G
And I see a child laid slain on the ground
C C Am Am
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
F F G G
Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command
C C
But not hearing anymore-
Am Am F F
Not hearing anymore
G G
Just the shrieks from the old rich

C C
And I Want to Believe
G G
In the madness that calls ~Now~
C C
And I Want to Believe
G G
That a light is shining through somehow

Bb Bb
And I Want to Believe
F F
And You Want to Believe
C C
And We Want to Believe
G G
And We Want to Live
Ab Ab
Oh, We Want to Live
Bb Bb
We Want to Live
C C
We Want to Live


(marching-type beat configuration appears)

G G
We Want to Live
Ab Ab
We Want to Live
Bb Bb
We Want To Live
C C
I Want to Live

G G
I Want to Live
Ab Ab
I Want to Live
Bb Bb
I Want to Live
C C
I Want to Live
G G
I Want to Live

Ab Ab
Live
Bb Bb
Live
C C
Live

Uke tab by , 14 Feb 2016

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About this song: Cygnet Commitee

"Cygnet Committee" is a song written by David Bowie in 1969 for his second eponymous album (released in the U.S. as Man of Words, Man of Music and re-released in 1972 as Space Oddity). At over 9 minutes this ambitious progressive folk rock song was Bowie's longest studio recording until the opening/title track of 1976's Station to Station.Lyrical backgroundDuring 1969 Bowie and then-girlfriend Angela Barnett lived in Beckenham, where they ran the Arts Lab, trying to encourage young people to be creative. Read more on Last.fm.

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