Rocket Man Tab

-Me First And The Gimme Gimmes-
          -Rocket Man-
     -Tabbed By Ryan Gregg-
 
About:
Great song, great band, just kick up the distortion.
 
Notes:
Not all 'X' times are played, but the beats are still there.
pm = Palm Mute
ps = Pick Slide
 
Tunning:
Standard (EADGBE)
 
Intro / Fill | Clean:
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------------||
D|------------------------------------------||
A|---------4-(X16)---------4-(X16)-7-(X8)---||
E|-4-(X16)---------4-(X16)------------------||
 
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------------||
D|-9-(X8)-4-(X8)----------------4-4-4-------||
A|---------------7-(X8)-4-(X16)-4-4-4-------||
E|------------------------------2-2-2-------||
 
Verse | Distortion:
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|---------6---------------6-------9--------||
D|-6-------6-(X16)-6-------6-(X16)-9-(X8)---||
A|-6-(X16)-4-------6-(X16)-4-------7--------||
E|-4---------------4------------------------||
    pm----  pm----  pm----  pm----
 
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|-16------6--------------------------------||
D|-16-(X8)-6-(X8)-7------4------------------||
A|-14------4------7-(X8)-4-(X32)------------||
E|----------------5------2------------------||
 
Chorus | Distortion:
 
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|---------7---------------7------6---------||
D|-7-------7-(X16)-7-------7-(X8)-6-(X8)----||
A|-7-(X16)-5-------7-(X16)-5------4---------||
E|-5---------------5------------------------||
            | = Cut to outro (on last chorus.)
e|-----------------|------------------------||
B|-----------------|------------------------||
G|-4-------7-------|--------7---7-----------||
D|-4-(X16)-7-(X16)-|-7------7-7-7-7-2-------||
A|-2-------5-------|-7-(X8)-5-7-5-7-2-(X16)-||
E|-----------------|-5--------5---5-0-------||
 
Outro | Distortion:
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|-7-------------7---7----------------------|| X1
D|-7-(X8)-7---7--7-7-7-7--------------------||
A|-5------7---7--5-7-5-7--------------------||
E|--------5---5----5---5--------------------||
 
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|---------------7---7----------------------|| X5
D|-2------7---7--7-7-7-7--------------------||
A|-2-(X8)-7---7--5-7-5-7--------------------||
E|-0------5---5----5---5--------------------||
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End | Distortion:
e|------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------------||
D|-2------7---7---7------------2----------7-||
A|-2-(X8)-7---7---7------------2----------7-||
E|-0------5---5---5----XXXXXXX-0-XXXXXXXX-5-||
                       ps        ps
Lyrics:
 
Intro:
She packed my bags last night, pre-flight
Zero hour, nine AM.
And I'm gonna be high
As a kite by then.
 
Verse:
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space.
On such a timeless
flight.
 
Chorus X2:
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no
I'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone.
 
Fill:
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kid
In fact it's cold as hell.
And there's no one there
To raise them if you did.
 
Verse:
And all this silence I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man.
A rocket man.
 
Chorus X2:
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no
I'm a rocket man, rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone.
 
Outro (Starts after last 'rocket man' in above chorus):
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time. X5
 
End:
I think it's gonna be a long, long time.
 
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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