"Rocket Man"
Music: Elton John    Lyics: Bernie Taupin

Chord formations (EADGBe): Capo on 3rd Fret
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[Verse]
            
She packed my 

              
bags last nigh

     
t pre-flight
            
Zero hour, nin

  
e a.m.
(           
  And I'm gonn

        
a be hi-------

              
----gh as a ki

     
te by then
            
I miss the ear

              
th so much, I 


miss my wife
            
It's so lonely

       
 out in space
             
 On such a tim

        
e-------------

              
--------------

         
--less flight

[Chorus]
             
 And I think i

              
t's gonna be a

           
 long, long ti

me
              
'Till touch do

              
wn brings me r

              
ound again to 


find
              
I'm not the ma

              
n they think I

       
 am at home
           
Oh no, no, no,

           
 I'm a rocket 

man
             
    Rocket man

              
, burning out 

              
his fuse up he


re alone
                                      (+C between choruses)

[Verse]
            
Mars ain't the

              
 kind of place

    
 to raise your

 kids
            
In fact it's c

      
old as hell
             
And there's no

           
 one the------

           
-re to raise t

           
hem, if you di

d
            
And all this s

              
cience I don't

 
 understand
            
It's just my j

              
ob, five days 

 
a week
           
 A rocket ma--

          
--------------

              
--------------

     
--n, a rocket 

man

[Chorus]
             
And I think it

              
's gonna be a 

       
long, long tim

e (x4 sounds p

retty good, en

d w/ C)


*This is copied from V3 of the chords for this song here and slightly modified.