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       Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) – The Buggles
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: soprano C

The Buggles 
Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (1979)
(Geoff Downes/Trevor Horn)

From: "The Age of Plastic"

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CHORDS

      g-C-E-A
Dsus2 2-2-0-0
Dadd9 2-4-2-0

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INTRO
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INTERLUDE
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VERSE
E
All of those wild American bilinguals
    Dsus2                A               E
Who talk to you in Paris of their lonely lives
E
School days and last days out there in the Midwest
     Dsus2                     A            E
They climb on their liners and rejoin their wives


BRIDGE
Bm
Walking down boulevards electric eyes
      Cmaj7
Would gaze at the waveforms and gasp at their size
E                                    E [break]
Let them be lonely and say you don't care


CHORUS
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade


INTERLUDE
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Una with long hair will stand by your side
        Dsus2                         A            E
And the friends who were hungry could swallow your pride
E
Chromium pets that video screens would show
Dsus2                    A             E
Pictures of helplessness old kings and queens


BRIDGE
Bm
Radio stations that fade as in dust
Cmaj7
All their transmitters are crumbling with rust
E                                    E [break]
Let them be broken and say you don't care


CHORUS
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade


INTERLUDE
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BRIDGE (last part)
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Let them be broken and say you don't care


CHORUS
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    Dadd9
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade


OUTRO
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