Blondie – Dragonfly (Guitar)

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Album: The hunter (1982) [Intro]

Dm
(Greetings ladies and gentlemen of Earth and all native intelligences of the forty planets

with contestants entered in the annual Grande Trex, the only inter-universe race. This year's event promises excitement to surpass all previous races. As many of you fans know already the route or track of the race has been increased by five thousand million kilometres, thus allowing the Grande Trex to include the B-Arc 15 system!) [Verse 1]

Dm         C
Dragonfly, dragonfly

Bb         Dm
Satellite, strike and fight

Dm           C
Laser light, shot tonight

       Bb         Dm
Target nullified, gyro subdivide

Dm        C
Latitude, longitude

Bb         Dm
Satellite, solid substitute

Dm        C
Dragonfly are revise

[Chorus]

Bb                  C
What's a drag race? Can't you see those..

Bb               C
dragons speeding up the street?

Bb                 C
But I learned they weren't real,

Bb              C                D
figments of the ancient sphere.

[Verse 2]

Dm          C
Rapid scan, radiance

Bb                Dm
for the chance to win the Grande

Dm          C
Manoeuvres, pre-program

Bb      Dm
Windage won't operate.

Dm        C
Negative, bearing swell

[Chorus]

Bb                C
Dragons fly, they symbolise

   Bb            C
in myth and saga breathing fire

Bb                   C
Look up, there's one flying higher

Bb              C
faster than the SSC

Bb                C
Is science hiding witchery?

Dm
(Grande Trex fans throughout the universe are well informed on the risks the pilots

take in entering this race. Re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business which can cause a craft to implode; explode; melt; lose atomic structure and so forth, adding to the interstellar terrain that on its own is a terrific danger to the ships en route. The craft are scheduled to launch at oh-seven-five-one-hundred Greenwich Mean Time and assembled on one our very own stars, Neutron Einstar EV9. And the excitement is at a fever pitch as the countdown approaches zero!) [Chorus]

Dm         C
Dragonfly, rations glide

   Bb                       Dm
in free fall slide, systems nullified

Dm         C
Satellite, dragonfly

Bb              Dm
Surface launch, radio silence

Dm          C
Hover high, Level off

[Verse 3]

    Bb                 C
The time space tactics saved us then

   Bb             C
display report present urgent

Bb                 C
Sequence counting, surface launch

Bb            C
Dragonfly destroying all.

Bb               C                Bb   C
Science claiming newest findings

Bb               C              Bb   C
Chanting calling flying dragons

Bb         C
Aboard all systems optimum

Bb              C             Bb   C
Nova scheduled, war continued

Bb            C
Half the continental shelf

Bb        C
burned by interval

Bb   C
     interval

Dm
(We have retained as an added feature for daring thrills and excitement in this race—a feature

which I'm sure you're going to like—a computer override lasting three and half and hours or two gens in which pilots and copilots manually control free fall; latitude; longitude; protract gravity; revise dimensional equations, run program checks, submerge in the wild oceans of Jonrin 22, and photograph as much territory and terrain as they can in addition to the requisite three thousand automatic shots. The postulate for mischance runs high, but not as high as the tension and competitive spirit right here and all over the galaxy!) Bb Dm [Chorus]

Dm         C
Dragonfly, dragonfly

Bb         Dm
Beacons aim, space game

(Countdown is negative two hundred and I am turning you over to the control room and command central for the launch.)

Dm              C
Satellite, computerised

(Good luck to all the entrants and especially to our own ship, the Dragonfly!)

Bb                Dm
Sonic glide, hypersonic glide

(Beacons, lasers, quasars mounted on deck; rapid survey reactor; failsafe radians) [Outro]

Dm            C
Win the race, calibrate

   Bb                      Dm
re-entry place, multi failsafe

(Extra points awarded for city salvage delivered at the finish line, preferably retaining molecular identity.)