Space Oddity - David Bowie

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Tuning: G C E A, G C E A

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Tab was made from the Ukulele TenThumbs Productions video:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr3KlmRzb_8)

Picking + Stru
            
A|--------0-0-
E|--------0-0-
C|--------0-0-
G|-2--2---2-2-
  (Pick)  (DUD
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mming Pattern 
           
0------------0
0-----3--3---3
0------------0
2------------2
)   (Pick)   (
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for part of th
           
-0-0----------
-3-3-----2-2--
-0-0----------
-2-2----------
DUD)   (Pick) 
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e song
         
0-0-0----0--0-
2-2-2----2--2-
0-0-0----2--2-
2-2-2----2--2-
(DUD)    (D DU
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0-0-0-0-|
2-2-2-2-|
2-2-2-2-|
2-2-2-2-|
 UDU)
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Chords in (parenthesis) should each be played for half the strumming pattern to make up the full pattern.
Chords in [square brackets] should only be played for half the strumming pattern.

Strumming Pattern: DDD DUU UDUDU

[Intro] 
   

             
Ground control

           
 to major Tom
             
Ground control

           
 to major Tom

(Picking + Strumming Pattern)
            
Take your prot

           
ein pills and 

           
put your helme

   
t on
             
Ground control

           
 to major Tom
             
Commencing cou

              
ntdown, engine

  
s on

(Picking + Strumming Pattern)
            
Check ig-nitio

           
n and may gods

           
 love be with 

  
you

             
This is ground

              
 control to ma

            
jor Tom, you'v

              
e really made 

       
the grade
       (Fm             C)                       F
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
   (Fm                     C)                F
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

             
This is major 

              
Tom to ground 

            
control, I'm s

              
tepping throug

         
h the door
       (Fm             C)             F
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
       (Fm             C)             F
And the stars look very different today

      
Here am I sitt

              
ing in a tin c

         
an far above t

      
he world
(Bbmaj7          Am)             (G             F)
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

             
Though I'm pas

              
t one hundred 

            
thousand miles

              
, I'm feeling 

         
very still
       (Fm               C)                  F
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
       (Fm                     C)          F
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows

[G]              [E7]            [Am]            [C]
Ground control to major Tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear m

e, major Tom?

Can you hear m

e, major Tom?

Can you hear m

e, major Tom?
Can you...

      
Here am I sitt

              
ing in my tin 

         
can far above 

      
the Moon
(Bbmaj7          Am)             (G              F)
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

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