(Song) Space Oddity

Space Oddity

Space Oddity

David Bowie

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six)
Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three)
Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, lift off)

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much" she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you "Here am I floating 'round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do"

Songwriters: David Bowie

Characters and dialogue in songs.

To point out the obvious, these lyrics are a dialogue. Think of Vaudeville and Broadway musicals. Think of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It's a story told directly through the speech of a fictional character. Bowie used many personae to create song cycles, including the flamboyant and tragic alien Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane (a reference to Bowie's half-brother, who suffered from mental illness) and the rather dark and destructive Thin White Duke. There are other film roles too, such as Maj. Jack "Strafer" Celliers in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, the Goblin King in Labyrinth, and Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell To Earth. In his last works, Bowie adopted the persona of a blind prophet. 

Chords

First work on the strumming patterns and then practice using them with the chords.