Cygnet Committee Chords by David Bowie
- Key: C
- BPM: 133
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
GUITAR
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GUITAR -
UKULELE
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PIANO
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MANDOLIN
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BANJO
CYGNET COMMITTEE CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] A7 Dmaj7 D Dm7 D F D Dm7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D D7 Dm7 D Bm D ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] C D Bm I bless you madly ■ ■ D Sadly as I tie my shoes D7 Bm I love you badly ■ D Just in time at times I guess Bm7 Bm D C D ■ Because of you I need to rest ■ ■ Bm D ■ Because it's you that sets the test [Chorus] Eb So much has gone Bbm And little is new Am And as the sparrow sings Gb Dawn chorus for Bbm Someone else to hear Am The Thinker sits alone Gb Bbm Growing older F And so bitter ■ [Verse] F I gave Them life F I gave Them all Bbm C F F7 ■ They drained my very soul ■ F Bb Dry ■ I crushed my heart to ease their pains C7 F F7 Ab No thought for me remains there ■ ■ Bb 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 Bm Am F ■ ■ I opened doors that would have blocked their way G C I braved their cause to guide for little pay [Chorus] Am F ■ I ravaged at my finance just for those Gsus4 G C Those whose claims were steeped in peace tranquility Am F Those who said a new world new ways ever free Gsus4 G Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me [Solo] C Am F G ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] D Instrumental I bless you madly Em7 Am7 D Sadly as I tie my shoes Bm7 I love you badly ■ Bm D Just in time at times I guess Bm7 Bm D ■ Because of you I need to rest oh yes Bm D ■ Because it's you that sets the test [Chorus] Eb ■ So much has gone Bbm And little is new Am And as the sunrise stream Gb Bbm Flickers on me Bbm My friends talk Am Of glory untold dream Gb Bbm Where all is God and God is just a word [Verse] F F7 ■ We had a friend a talking man C7 F7 Who spoke of many powers he had F Not of the best of men but ours C We used him F Ab We let him use his powers ■ Bb Db We let him fill our needs C Now we are strong Am F ■ And the road is coming to it's end G G7 C Now the damned have no time to make amends Am F No purse of token fortune stands in our way G C The silent guns of love will blast the sky Am F We broke the ruptured structure built of age G C Our weapons were the 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 [Chorus] Am F Infiltrated business cesspools hating through our sleeves G G7 Yea and we slit the Catholic throat stoned the poor C On slogans such as C Wish You Could Hear C Love Is All We Need Am Kick Out The Jams Am 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 Gsus4 G G7 And we can force you to believe ■ ■ C G 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 G 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 Gsus4 G C I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right Am And I open my eyes to look around Am7 F Gsus4 G ■ ■ And I see a child laid slain on the ground ■ C Am F ■ As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows ■ G G7 Plowing down man woman listening to it's command C But not hearing anymore Am F Not hearing anymore ■ Gsus4 G Just the shrieks from the old rich [Verse] G7 C And I want to believe G In the madness that calls 'Now' G7 C ■ And I want to believe G That a light's 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 [Chorus] C We want to live 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 G7 Ab I want to live Bb I want to live [Outro] C7 C I want to live ■ G G7 I want to live ■ Ab Live Live Bb Live C G Ab Bb C G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [End]
