Rocket Man

Words & Music by Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Gm7 C9
Verse 3fr


                
1. She packed my bags last night pre - flight:
2. Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids;

Gm7 C9 Eb Bb/D
3fr 6fr 3fr

    
             
ze - ro ho - ur nine a. m.; and I’m gon - na be high
in fact, it’s cold as hell; and there’s no one there to raise

Cm Cm/Bb F/A
3fr 3fr 5fr

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       
      
as a kite by then.
them if you did.

Gm7 C9 Gm7
3fr 3fr

  
                           
I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife; it’s lone - ly out in space
And all the science I don’t un - der - stand: it just my job five days a week.

© Copyright 1972 Dick James Music Limited.

Universal/Dick James Music Limited.
All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.

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 C9 Eb Bb/D
6fr 3fr

       
     
on such a time - -
A rock - et man,

Cm Cm/Bb F/A F
3fr 3fr 5fr

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           
- less flight.
rock - et man.

Bb Eb/Bb
6fr 6fr

Chorus

                   
  
And I think it’s gon - na be a long, long time till touch - down brings me round a - gain to find

Bb Eb B¨/D
6fr 6fr 3fr

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                     
 
I’m not the man they think I am at home, oh, no, no, no. I’m a

C Eb
3fr 6fr

                    

rock - et man. Rock - et man, burn - ing out his fuse up here

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 Bb Eb Bb
6fr 6fr 6fr

   
                
a - lone. And I think it’s gon - na be a long, long time

Eb/Bb Bb
6fr 6fr

                     
  
till touch - down brings me round a - gain to find I’m not the man they think I am at home,

Eb B¨/D C
6fr 3fr 3fr

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               
 
oh, no, no, no. I’m a rock - et man.

To Coda Ø D.C. al Coda

Eb Bb Eb/Bb
6fr 6fr 6fr

                  

Rock - et man, burn - ing out his fuse up here a - lone.

Ø Coda
Eb Bb
6fr 6fr

Repeat to fade

   

             
And I think it’s gon - na be a long, long time.

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