Space Oddity

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

  4     4  4   4   4  4  -3
Ground control to Major Tom
  4     4  4   4   4  4  -3
Ground control to Major Tom
  4   -4   4  -4    4
Take your protein pills 
 -4  4   -4   4 -4  4
And put your helmet on
   4    4  4   4  4  4   -3
Ground control to Major Tom
-3  4  4    4    4    -4   4  -3
Commencing countdown, engines on
 4   -4 4 -4    4  -4   4    -4   4  -4  -4
Check ignition and may Gods love be with you

 6   6    7    -8  -9  8  -8 7   -7
This is ground control to Major Tom
  -7    8 -8   7    -7   7
You've really made the grade 
-6   -7  7  7   7   -8  7    7      7     -8   7
And the papers want to know who's shirts you wear
 -6  -7   7   7    7    -8  7  -8   7  -8   7
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
 
 8  -8   7  -7 -7  -7  7   -7  6   
Here I  am sitting in  my tin can
 8  8 -8   7   -7
Far above the world
-8 -8   -8   8   7
Planet Earth is blue
 7    7    -7  -7  7  -7  -6  
And theres nothing I can  do 


 6   6   7 -8  -9  8   -8    7   -7
This is Major Tom to ground control
-7     8  -8     7    -7   7
I'm  stepping through the door
-6  -7   7   7   7  -8   7    7  7 -8   7    
And I'm floating in  a  most perculiar way
 -6  -7   7    7   7 -8   7  -8     7  -8    
And the stars look very diff-rent  to-day

 8  -8  7   -7  -7   -7   7  -7   6   
Here I  am floating round my tin can
 8   8 -8   7   -7
Far above  the moon
-8 -8   -8   8   7
Planet Earth is blue
 7    7     -7 -7  7  -7   -6  
And theres nothing I  can  do

  6     6   7   -8   -9  8   -8  -8    -7   
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
 -7  8 -8   7 -7    7 
I'm feeling very  still
 -6 -7   7   7   7   -8
And I  think my spaceship
  7     7    7  -8   7
Knows which way to  go
 -6  -7  7   7   7  -8   7-8   7    -8   -9 
Tell my wife,I love her very  much, She knows
 -8    -8 -8   -8   -8 -8  -8
Ground control to  Major  Tom
 -8   -8  7    7     -6      7   -8     8   
Your circuits dead, there's something wrong
-8  -8   7   -8  -8 8   -8
Can you hear me  Major Tom ?
-8  -8   7   -8  -8 8   -8
Can you hear me  Major Tom ?
 -8  -8
Can you ?................

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