Rocket Man - Elton John

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She packed my 

              
bags last nigh

            
t pre-flight, 

             
zero hour, nin

    
e A.M.
             
And I'm gonna 

      
be high,      

              
as a kite by t

       
hen
           
I miss the ear

              
th so much, I 

          
miss my wife, 

             
it's so lonely

         
 out in space
          
On such a time

               
- less  flight

             
And I think it

              
's gonna be a 

             
long, long tim

              
e 'till touch 

              
down brings me

              
 round again t

   
o find
              
I'm not the ma

              
n they think I

             
 am at home, o

           
h no, no, no, 

        
I'm a rocket m

an
             
Rocket man, bu

              
rning out his 

              
fuse up here a

  (=   
lone 
             
And I think it

              
's gonna be a 

             
long, long tim

              
e 'till touch 

              
down brings me

              
 round again t

   
o find
              
I'm not the ma

              
n they think I

             
 am at home, o

           
h no, no, no, 

        
I'm a rocket m

an
             
Rocket man, bu

              
rning out his 

              
fuse up here a

  (=   
lone 

           
Mars ain't the

              
 kind of place

            
 to raise your

           
 kids, in fact

              
 it's cold as 

 
hell
             
And there's no

           
 one there to 

         
raise them, if

        
 you did
           
And all this s

              
cience I don't

         
 understand, i

              
t's just my jo

              
b, five days a

  
 week
           
A rocket man, 

        
        a rock

       
et man

             
And I think it

              
's gonna be a 

             
long, long tim

              
e 'till touch 

              
down brings me

              
 round again t

   
o find
              
I'm not the ma

              
n they think I

             
 am at home, o

           
h no, no, no, 

        
I'm a rocket m

an
             
Rocket man, bu

              
rning out his 

              
fuse up here a

  (=   
lone 
             
And I think it

              
's gonna be a 

             
long, long tim

              
e 'till touch 

              
down brings me

              
 round again t

   
o find
              
I'm not the ma

              
n they think I

             
 am at home, o

           
h no, no, no, 

        
I'm a rocket m

an
             
Rocket man, bu

              
rning out his 

              
fuse up here a

  (=   
lone 

             
And I think it

              
's gonna be a 

     (=
long, long tim

e (repeat and 

fade)

 (for =C, hammer on and pull off the C chord while leaving the G bass note)

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