Blitzen Trapper – Astronaut (Guitar)

              E                         A
Now if you're gonna play your games with me

       A               A/G        E      D
Like a leaf in the the top of the tree

    A                                  E           D
You better watch your step when you're coming back down

         G                  C
From the city on out to the sea

            E                   A
And if your brothers come after me

           A         A/G         E      D
With their horses so wild and so free

        A                        E        D
I'll be waiting at the gate in a terrible state

         G                 C
With the man who holds the key

          G               C
And he'll treat you quite carelessly

       A                    E        D
For he knows my face from a previous place

       G                    C
From a country in a foreign land

         G                 C             G/B
Throwing dice in a game of chance on the sand

      A                 E            D
But I lost my cool, and fate loves a fool

        G                           C
Now I'm standing on the edge of the past

      G         D/F#             Em         D          A    C
In 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               C
Yeah, this beating heart

  A7               D     B7,Em,D/F#, G,A 
Yeah, this beating heart 

     E                             D            A
Your friends all tell you that you gotta make a change

      A                     G            E
Gotta make this break in so many kind of ways

    E                          D            A
The sky to the trees, from the trees to the earth'

         A                             G             E
From the earth to your grave, from the grave to your birth

E                                D              A
Your heart's been heavy with the silver and the gold 

        A                           G            E
But the gold ain't yours 'cause his heart's been sold

       C                D
For to pay your lover's way

        G       G/F#  A7
And the ship it sails today    E

E                   D              A
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by

       A           G         E
Got my children to light the way

E                   D              A
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by

       A           G         E
Got my brothers to light the way

E                   D              A
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by

       A          G         E
Got my sisters to light the way

          C                D
You gotta pay your lover's way

        G       G/F#  A7
And the ship it sails today

             E                          A
So if you're gonna play your games with me

       A             A/G    E
Better use some real trickery

    A                            E            D
You better get smart 'cause that lock on your heart

            G                   C
It ain't as heavy as it used to be

     G               C
In a land without no gravity 

        A                      E       D
In this windless place, on the edge of space

          G                           C
Where the saints and the sinners have passed

         G                       C
With the dead satellites and the trash

      G         D/F#             Em         D/F#       A
In 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               C
Yeah, this beating heart

  A7               D     B7,Em,D/F#, G,A 
Yeah, this beating heart