ROCKET MAN
(I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG LONG TIME)

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the Album Honky Chateau

Gm7                                       C9
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Gm7                 C9   
Zero hour nine a.m.
Eb                       Bb\D Cm Cm7/Bb       F/A    
And I'm gonna be high       as a kite by then

Gm7                                 C11
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
Gm7                  C11
It's lonely out in space
Eb             Bb\D Cm    Cm7/Bb
On such a time-      less  flight

F/A F/C F Cm7/F

Bb                                                       Eb
And I think it's gonna be a long long time
                                                                    Bb
Till touch down brings me round again to find
                                                              Eb
I'm not the man they think I am at home
              Bb\D       C7
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Eb                                                         Bb         Eb
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Eb/Bb

Gm7                                        C9
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
Gm7                          C7
In fact it's cold as hell
Eb                          Bb\D      Cm         Cm/Bb         F
And there's no one there to raise them if you did

Gm7                                 C7                C11   C7
And all this science I don't understand
Gm7                                 C7            C11
It's just my job five days a week

              Eb Bb\D Cm7    Cm7/Bb         F/A  /FC F Cm7/F
A rocket ma-             n, a rocket man


Eb                                    Bb                      Eb Bb
And I think it's gonna be a long long time...