• Song:

    Farewell Rocketship

  • Artist:

    Children Collide

  • Album:

    The Long Now (iTunes)

Children Collide
Farewell Rocketship

Tabbed by Lachy Bruce


I got some of the names of the powerchords wrong on my last attempt at this song, so if 
wrong again here's the outline:

A = 002220
E = 022100
Ab = 466544
C#m = 446654
A5 = 577xxx
Em = x22xxx
Ab5 = 466xxx
C#5 = x466xx

Verse 1:
A             E
This world it is not safe,
   Ab                 C#m
We must make plans to leave this place
A             E
We’ll build a colony
   Ab             C#m
on nearby planets known to me,

A                 E
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
    Ab             C#m
Goodbye to all the ones I’ll miss,
A                 E
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
    Ab             C#m
Goodbye to war and politics,


|E|---17-16--12~--------------------------------------4-5-2~---------2-2-2-2-2-2----------|
|B|--------------------4-4-4-5-5-5-7-7-7-9-9-9-----------------------------------------2~-|
|G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 2:
(Repeat pattern from verse 1)

No time to warn your friends
That they’ll stay here and meet their ends
Sneak up without a trace
And start a brand new human race

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye to all the ones I’ll miss,
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye to war and politics

Chorus:

A5   Em        Ab5       C#5
Farewell rocketship
A5   Em        Ab5       C#5
Farewell rocketship
A5   Em        Ab5       C#5
Farewell rocketship
A5   Em        Ab5       C#5
Farewell rocketship

Verse 3:
(I think you know the pattern by now)

This world it is not safe,
We must make plans to leave this place,
We’ll build a colony
On nearby planets known to me,

I tried, I tried, I tired, I tired
I tried to warn them it’s too late
I’ll try, I’ll try, I’ll try, I’ll try
I’ll try my luck in outer space

Chorus:
(Those powerchords from the last chorus)

Farewell Rocketship
Farewell Rocketship
Farewell Rocketship
Farewell Rocketship

Verse 4:
(Same verse pattern but with some nice singular clean strums)
We won’t need a doctor
We won’t need a scientist,
We won’t need an army or a TV
we’ll just need you and me

Solo (incomplete):

|E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|G|------------------------------------------------------6-6-6-6-6-6---| x2
|D|---7-7-7------------2-2-2------------6-6-6------------6-6-6-6-6-6---|
|A|---7-7-7------------2-2-2------------6-6-6------------4-4-4-4-4-4---|
|E|---5-5-5/17---------0-0-0/12---------4-4-4/16-----------------------|

Unsure of tremolo picking section but these chorus chords are played underneath it:
A5   Em        Ab5       C#5

Chorus:

Farewell rocketship
Farewell rocketship
Farewell rocketship
Farewell rocketship

Outro:
(Verse Chords but like you played before the solo)
We won’t need an army, or a TV
we’ll just need you and me
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