The Cygnet Committee

David Bowie

Tom: C

D            D/C
I bless you madly
Bm    Bb           D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
            D/C
I love you badly
Bm       Bb                D   D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
  Bm        Bb            D   D/C
Because of you I need to rest
 Bm          Bb                 D
Because it~s you that sets the test

Eb                    Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm           A
And as the sparrow sings
       F#
Dawn chorus for
 Bbm             
Someone else to hear
Bbm          A
The thinker sits alone
  F#     Bbm
Growing older

And so bitter

F                               Bbm
~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all
     C                Fm
They drained my very soul...dry
F                                 Bbm
I crushed my heart to ease Their pains
      C              Fm         Ab
No thought for me remains there
Bbm              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
Am							  F
I open doors that would have blocked their way
   G							C
I braved Their cause to guide for little pay
Am					     F
I ravaged at my finanace just for Those
		 G						 C
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
Am							  F
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
				    G					   C
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~

Am     F      G

D	  	 D/C
I bless you madly
 Bm	Bb		 D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
		D/C
I love you badly
 Bm	   Bb			    D   D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
  Bm		Bb		  D   D/C
Because of you I need to rest
  Bm		  Bb			  D
Because it~s you that sets the test

Eb			    Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm		 A
And as the sunrise stream
 F#		Bbm
Flickers on me
		   Bbm	   A
My friends talk of glory, untold dream
	F#		   Bbm
Where all is God and God is just a word

F				     Bbm
~~We had a friend, a talking man
	C		  Fm
Who spoke of many powers that he had
 F				    Bbm
Not of the best of men but Ours
    C				  Fm		  Ab
We used him, We let him use his powers
   Bbm			Db
We let him fill our needs	
		 C
Now we are strong.

Am					 F
And the road is coming to its end
 G						   C
Now the damned have not time to make amends
Am							F
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way
     G					    C
The silent guns of love will blast the sky

Am							F
We broke the ruptured structure build of age
	G					C
Our weapons were 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

  Am			
Infiltrated business cesspools
		    F
Hating through Our sleeves
		 G				
Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat
			   C
Stoned the poor on slogans as:

	-Wish You Could Hear-

			     Am
	-Love Is All We Need-



	-Kick Out The Jams-


	-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
		G			   C
And We Can Force You to Believe.~~

				  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,

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
	  G								
C
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~

		   Am			   F
And I open my eyes to look around
						 G
And I see a child laid slain on the ground
C			  Am
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
F			   G
Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command
	   C
But not hearing anymore-
        Am		 F
Not hearing anymore
		G
Just the shrieks from the old rich

		    C
And I Want to Believe
			   G
In the madness that calls ~Now~
		    C
And I Want to Believe
				   G
That a light is 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
		C
We Want to Live

(marching-type beat configuration appears)

	     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
	     Ab
I Want to Live
	     Bb
I Want to Live
		C
I Want to Live
		G
I Want to Live

 Ab
Live
 Bb
Live
 C
Live

(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)

The Chords Used Are:

       E A D G B E
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