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Rocket Man

Elton John
All-time classics Pop essentials Easy songs
KeyB
Capo2
LevelEasy
Transpose B 0
Text
Chord sheet
Chords are positioned above the lyric change point
Am7/ Bx22010
Dsus4add2 x54030
  Emadd2She packed my bags last night, Am7pre-flight. (Yeah, she did...)
  A B Emadd2Zero hour, nine a.Am7m.
  A BACnd I'm gonna be Am7highB....Am7...as a kite by then
 /C(slide)Dsus4add2 /D(slide) C Am7/ B CDsus4add2
  Emadd2I miss the earth so much, I mAm7iss my wife
  A B Emadd2It's so lonely out in sAm7pace
  A B C/C(slide)DsusAm74addB2 Am7 
On such a time.........less flight.
 
GAnd I think it's gonna be a long, long tiCme
 'Till touch down brings me round again to Gfind
 I'm not the man they think I am at Chome
 Oh no, Gno, no, I'm a Arocket man
CGC
 RockCet man, burning out his fuse up here alone
Emadd2Mars ain't the kind of place to rAm7aise your kids
  A B Emadd2In fact it's cold as Am7hell
  A B CAnd there's no one Am7therBe to Am7raise them, if you did
 /C(slide)Dsus4add2 /D(slide) C Am7/ B CDsus4add2
 And Emadd2all this science I don't Am7understand
  Emadd2It's just my job, five days a Am7week
 A rocket Cman.Am7....B....Am7.......I’m a rocket man
 /C(slide)Dsus4add2 /D(slide) C Am7/ B CDsus4add2
 
Post chorus:
  CAnd I think it's gonna be a lGong, long time x4 
 
  C GFor the Rocket ManEadd2 
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How to play Rocket Man chords

This Chordsurf arrangement of Rocket Man by Elton John is presented in the key of B, with a capo at the 2nd fret. Use the transpose controls above the sheet to move every chord together while keeping the lyric-change positions aligned.

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