Song: Galaxy song
Artist: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Composer: Eric Idle & John Du Prez
Album: Monty Python sings
Tabbed by: DJ
9th Mar 2013
Time signatures:
Verses - 4/4
Instrumental break - 3/4
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the key of Bb)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
C#dim = xx2323 G6 = 320000 E = 022100 F#m7 = 242222
G = 320003 G7 = 320001 C = 022120 C# = x46664
E7 = 022130 Am7 = x02213 C#dim = x24242 C#7 = x46464
A7 = x02020 G * = 3xxxxx Emaj7 = 021100 F#m = 244222
D7 = xx0212 G/F# = 2xxxxx E6 = 022120 A = x02220
Gmaj7 = 320002 G/F = 1xxxxx B7 = x21202 Am = x02210
D = xx0232
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[Verse 1]
C#dim G
Whenever life gets you down, (Mrs. Brown)
C#dim G
And things seem hard or tough,
C#dim G E7
And people are stupid, ob - noxious or daft,
A7 D7
And you feel that you've had quite e - nough------!
[Verse 2]
G Gmaj7 G6 G
Just ...re - member that you're standing on a planet that's e - volving,
G G6 G7 D7
And re - volving at nine hundred miles an hour,
Am7 D7 Am7
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
D7 Am7 G D7
A sun that is the source of all our power!
[Verse 3]
G Gmaj7 G6 G
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
G * G/F# G/F E E7 Am C C#dim
Are moving, at a million miles a day, in an outer spiral arm,
G E7 Am7 D7 G
At forty thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky way!
[Break]
C#dim G E7 Am7 D7 G D7
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 4]
G Gmaj7 G6 G
Our galaxy it - self contains a hundred billion stars,
G G6 G7 D7
Its a hundred thousand light years side-to-side,
Am7 D7 Am7
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
D7 Am7 G D7
But, out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide!
[Verse 5]
G Gmaj7 G6 G
We're thirty thousand light years from ga - lactic central point,
G * G/F# G/F E E7 Am
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
C C#dim G E7
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions,
Am7 D7 G
In this a - mazing and ex - panding uni - verse!
[Verse 6 - Instrumental in 3/4 time]
E Emaj7 E6 E E E6 E7 B7
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ /__/ | / / / |
B7 F#m7 B7 F#m7 B7 F#m7 E
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / / / |
E Emaj7 E6 E C# C#7 F#m
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / / / |
A Am G D G D7
| / /__/ / | / / / | / /__/ / | / / / |
[Verse 7 - Back to 4/4 time]
D7 G Gmaj7 G6 G
The--- universe it - self keeps on ex - panding and ex - panding,
G G6 G7 D7
In all of the di - rections it can whizz,
D7 Am7 D7 Am7
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
D7 Am7 G
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is!
[Verse 8]
D7 G Gmaj7 G6 G
So re - member, when you're feeling very small and in - secure,
G * G/F# G/F E E7 Am
How a - mazingly un - likely is your birth,
C C#dim G E7
And pray that there's in - telligent life somewhere up in space,
Am7 D7 G
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
