Song Title: Gallileo
Artist: Indigo Girls (Amy Ray, Emily Saliers)
Words & Music by: Emily Saliers
Album: Rites of Passage
Submitted by: Mike Ator
Play in a straight-forward southern folk/rock 4-4. The song is
written/recorded in G, but it plays well in A and is more suitable to my
limited male vocal range.
Tab guides:
F#m7 X44200
C#m7 X46600
Intro:
A E | D E | A E | D E
First Verse:
A E D E
Gallileo's head was on the block
A E D E
His crime was lookin' up the truth
A E D E
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
F#m7 D E D
I try to trace them to my youth
A E D E
And then you had to bring up reincarnation
A E D E
Over a couple of beers the other night
A E D
And now I'm serving time for mistakes
E F#m7 E D E
Made by another in another lifetime
Chorus:
A E D
How long 'til my soul gets it right
E A E D
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
E F#m7 C#m7 B7
I call on the resting soul of Gallileo
D E A E D E
King of night vision, king of insight
Second Verse:
Then I think about my fear of motion
Which I never could explain
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Must have crashed his little airplane
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
F#m7 D
I'm not makin' a joke
B7 D
You know me I take everything so seriously
F#m7 B7
If we wait for the time 'til our souls get it right
E D
Then at least I know there'll be
E D A
No nuclear anihilation in my lifetime
E D E
I'm still not right
Instumental:
A E D E F#m7 C#m7 B7 B7 D E
Last Verse:
I offer thanks to those before me
That's all I have to say
'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now I have to pay
But then again it feels like
Some sort of inspiration
To let the last life off the hook
Or (s)he'll say look what I've had to overcome from my last life
I think I'll right a book
Last Chorus (variation on lyrics):
How long 'til my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach their highest light
Except for Gallileo - God rest his soul
King of night vision, king of insight
A E D E
How long
A E D E
How long
A E D E [A]
How long...