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                Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) – The Buggles
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

The Buggles 
Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade) (1979)
(Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn)

From: "The Age of Plastic"

The chord sheet only contains the basic chords which may be enough to 
strum along on a guitar. The song is pretty enough that way.

But what goes on behind/below the surface is impressive, too. I transcribed 
the INTERLUDE and the keyboard chords and the haunting rhythm of VERSE 
and BRIDGE in the tab below for a second guitar or whatever is available. 


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INTERLUDE
  C#m                               B
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|------4-----5---|--------4---5---|------2-----4---|----------------|
G|6---------------|----6-----------|4---------------|----------------|
D|6---------------|----------------|4---------------|----------------|
A|4---------------|----------------|2---------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|


VERSE
       Emaj7       Emaj7    Emaj7       Emaj7       Emaj7    Emaj7
[ch]Dmaj7/E[/ch]    [ch]Dmaj7/E[/ch]      [ch]Dmaj7/E[/ch]    [ch]Dmaj7/E[/ch]    [ch]Dmaj7/E[/ch]      [ch]Dmaj7/E[/ch]    
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|
B|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|
G|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|
D|2-----2-----2---|--2-----2---2---|2-----2-----2---|--2-----2---2---|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 D     [ch]E7/D[/ch]   D    [ch]E7/D[/ch]    D  [ch]E7/D[/ch] A/E              E
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|0-----0-----0---|0---------------|
B|3-----3-----3---|--3-----3---3---|2-----2-----2---|0---------------|
G|2-----4-----2---|--4-----2---4---|2-----2-----2---|1---------------|
D|0-----0-----0---|--0-----0---0---|2-----2-----2---|2---------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|


BRIDGE (last part)
 E5    E6    Esus2   E6 Esus2 E6   E5    E6   Esus2  E6
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|7---------------|----------------|7---------------|----------------|
B|5-----9-----7---|9-----7-----9---|5-----9-----7---|9---------------|
G|4-----6-----4---|6-----4-----6---|4-----6-----4---|6---------------|
D|------6-----4---|6-----4-----6---|------6-----4---|6---------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|0---------------|0---------------|0---------------|0---------------|


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CHORDS
      E-A-D-G-B-E
Dsus2 x-x-0-2-3-0
A/E   0-x-2-2-2-x
Cmaj7 x-3-2-0-0-0
D/E   0-2-2-2-3-2

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INTRO
(drum box)
| N.C. | 
(bass only)
| E | % | % | % | 
| E | % | 


INTERLUDE
| C#m | % | B | % | 
| C#m | % | B | % | 


VERSE
E
All of those wild American bilinguals
    Dsus2                A/E             E
Who talk to you in Paris of their lonely lives
E
School days and last days out there in the Midwest
     Dsus2                     A/E          E
They climb on their liners and rejoin their wives


BRIDGE
Bm
Walking down boulevards electric eyes
      Cmaj7
Would gaze at the waveforms and gasp at their size
E                                    E [break]
Let them be lonely and say you don't care


CHORUS
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade


INTERLUDE
| C#m | % | B | % | 
| C#m | % | B | % | 


E
Una with long hair will stand by your side
        Dsus2                         A/E          E
And the friends who were hungry could swallow your pride
E
Chromium pets that video screens would show
Dsus2                    A/E           E
Pictures of helplessness old kings and queens


BRIDGE
Bm
Radio stations that fade as in dust
Cmaj7
All their transmitters are crumbling with rust
E                                    E [break]
Let them be broken and say you don't care


CHORUS
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade


INTERLUDE
| C#m | % | B | % | 
| C#m | % | B | % | 
| A | % | F#m | % |


BRIDGE (last part)
E                                    E [break]
Let them be broken and say you don't care


CHORUS
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade
     Cmaj7    D/E
Astroboy, I'm watching the proles on parade


OUTRO
| Cmaj7 | % | D/E | % |
| Cmaj7 | % | D/E | % |

| Cmaj7 | % | D/E | % |
| Cmaj7 | % | D/E | % |
| Cmaj7 | % | D/E | % |

| Cmaj7 | % | % | % | % | D/E