Blitzen Trapper – Astronaut chords

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Capo 3 

Verse 1:

E ANow if you're gonna play your games with me
A A/G E DLike a leaf in the the top of the tree
A E DYou better watch your step when you're coming back down
G CFrom the city on out to the sea
Verse 2:
E AAnd if your brothers come after me
A A/G E DWith their horses so wild and so free
A E DI'll be waiting at the gate in a terrible state
G CWith the man who holds the key
G CAnd he'll treat you quite carelessly
Prechorus:
A E DFor he knows my face from a previous place
G CFrom a country in a foreign land
G C G/BThrowing dice in a game of chance on the sand
A E DBut I lost my cool, and fate loves a fool
G CNow I'm standing on the edge of the past
G D/F# Em D A CIn my spacesuit hoping that this woman will call me at last
Chorus:
E D A G C A7'Cause I'm an astronaut on the shores of this grand illusion
E D A G C And I'm falling down at the sound of this beating heart
A7 CYeah, this beating heart
A7 D B7,Em,D/F#, G,A Yeah, this beating heart
Bridge: E,D,A A,G,E
E D AYour friends all tell you that you gotta make a change
A G EGotta make this break in so many kind of ways
E D AThe sky to the trees, from the trees to the earth'
A G EFrom the earth to your grave, from the grave to your birth
E D AYour heart's been heavy with the silver and the gold
A G EBut the gold ain't yours 'cause his heart's been sold
C DFor to pay your lover's way
G G/F# A7And the ship it sails today E
E D AOh my, my now we're rollin' by and by
A G EGot my children to light the way
E D AOh my, my now we're rollin' by and by
A G EGot my brothers to light the way
E D AOh my, my now we're rollin' by and by
A G EGot my sisters to light the way
C DYou gotta pay your lover's way
G G/F# A7And the ship it sails today
Verse 3:
E ASo if you're gonna play your games with me
A A/G EBetter use some real trickery
A E DYou better get smart 'cause that lock on your heart
G CIt ain't as heavy as it used to be
G CIn a land without no gravity
A E DIn this windless place, on the edge of space
G CWhere the saints and the sinners have passed
G CWith the dead satellites and the trash
G D/F# Em D/F# AIn my spacesuit hoping that this woman will call me at last
E D A G C A7'Cause I'm an astronaut on the shores of this grand illusion
E D A G C And I'm falling down at the sound of this beating heart
A7 CYeah, this beating heart
A7 D B7,Em,D/F#, G,A Yeah, this beating heart
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