Artist: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Song: Galaxy DNA song
Written by: Eric Idle and Professor Brian Cox
Tabbed by: DJ
2nd July 2014
The 2013 updated version of Eric's 'Galaxy song' of 1983
Tuning:Standard
Time signatures: 4/4 & 3/4
CAPO: 2nd fret (sounds in key of B)
G = 320003 D7 = xx0212 E7 = 022130
Gmaj7 = 320002 Am7 = x02010 Am = x02210
G6 = 320000 (G/F#)= 2xxxxx C = x32010
G7 = 320001 E = 022100 C#dim = xx2323
AmMaj7 = x02110
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G Gmaj7 G6 G Gmaj7 G6
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
G G Gmaj7 G6 G
Just ...re - member you're a tiny little person on a planet,
G G6 G7 D7
In a universe ex - panding, and im - mense,
D7 Am7 D7 Am7
That life began e - volving, and dis - solving, and re - solving,
D7 Am G D7
In the deep primordial oceans by the hydrothermal vents!
G Gmaj7 G6 G
Our earth, which had its birth almost five billion years a - go,
(G/F#) E E7 Am
From out of a col - lapsing cloud of gas,
C C#dim G E7
Grew life which was quite new, and e - ventually led to you,
Am7 D7 G D7
In only 3.5 ...billion years, or less!
G Gmaj7 G6 G
De - oxyribonu - cleic acid helps us repli - cate,
G G6 G7 D7
And randomly mu - tate from day to day,
Am AmMaj7
We left the seas, and climbed the trees,
Am7 D7 Am7 D7 G
And our biolo - gies ...con - tinued to e - volve through D N A !
G Gmaj7 G6 G
We're 98 .9 per cent the same as chimpan - zees,
(G/F#) E E7 Am
Whose trees we left three million years a - go,
C C#dim G
To wander swapping genes, out of Africa,
E7 Am7 D7 G
Which means ...we're re - lated to everyone we know!
("Oo, 'ello, love!")
[Waltz time rhythm]
G Gmaj7 G6 G
Life is quite strange, life is quite weird,
G G6 G7 D7
Life is really quite odd,
Am AmMaj7 Am7 D7
Life from a star ...is far more biz - arre,
Am D7 G
Than an old bearded bloke they call God!
G Gmaj7 G6 G
So gaze at the sky, and start asking why...
(G/F#) E E7 Am
...You're even here on this ball,
C C#dim G E7
For though life is fraught, the odds are so short,
Am7 D7 G
You're lucky ...to be here at all!
e |---------------|
B |---------------|
G |---------------|
D |---0---2---4---|
A |---------------|
E |---------------|
[Back to 4/4 rhythm]
G Gmaj7 G6 G
Standing on a planet which is spinning 'round a star,
G G6 G7 D7
One of just a billion trillion suns,
Am AmMaj7 Am7 D7
In a Universe that's ninety billion light years side to side,
Am D7 G
Wondering where the heck it all came from!
G Gmaj7 G6 G
You've a tiny little blink of life to try and under - stand...
(G/F#) E E7 Am
...What on earth is really going on,
C C#dim G E7
In bi - ology and chemistry, which made you you, and made me me,
Am7 D7 G
But don't ask me ...I only wrote the song!
e |---------------|
B |---------------|
G |---------------|
D |---0---2---4---|
A |---------------|
E |---------------|
[Waltz time - Whistling the tune]
G Gmaj7 G6 G G G6 G7 D7
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ /__/ | / / / |
Am AmMaj7 Am7 D7 Am D7 G
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / / / |
[Waltz time - Instrumental break]
G Gmaj7 G6 G E E7 Am
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / / / |
C C#dim G E7 Am7 D7
| / /__/ / | / /__/ / | / /__/ / |
[Coda]
G E7 Am7 D7 G E7
e |--3--------|-----0----|--0----0--2----2--|--3--------|----0----|
B |--3--------|--3----3--|--1-------1-------|--3--------|--3---3--|
G |-----------|--1-------|-----0-------2----|-----------|--1------|
D |-----------|----------|----------0-------|-----------|---------|
A |-----------|----------|--0---------------|-----------|---------|
E |--3--2--1--|--0-------|------------------|--3--2--1--|--0------|
[Whistling the tune]
Am7 D7 G
e |--0----0--2---3--5--|----3----||
B |--1-------1---------|----3----||
G |-----0--------------|----0----||
D |----------0---------|----0----||
A |--0-----------------|----2----||
E |--------------------|----3----||
