Title: Return to Oz
Author: Scissor Sisters
Transcription by: Eddy Burns

Note: All guitars are tuned half-step down
eg. E->Eb, A->Ab etc.

Intro
Dm

Verse 1
Dm
Once there was a man who had a 
F
little too much
C
time on his hands 
A
he never stopped to think that he was getting 
Bb
older 
Dm
when his night came to an end
C#
he tried to grasp his for his last friend 
Ab
and pretend that he could wish himself 
Cm
health on a four-leaf 
Bb
clover

Chorus
C#
He said is this the return to oz the grass is
F#
dead the gold is 
A
brown and the sky has 
C#
claws
C#
theres a wind-up man walking round and round what 
F#
once was emerald City's 
A
now a crystal 
C#
town

Verse 2
Dm
It's three o'clock in the morning you get a 
F
phone call from the 
C
queen with a hundred 
A
heads she says that they're all 
Bb
dead 
Dm
she tried the last one on it couldn't speak fell off and 
C#
now she just wanders the halls thinking 
Ab
nothing 
Cm
thinking nothing at 
Bb
all

Chorus
C#
She said is this the return to oz the grass is
F#
dead the gold is 
A
brown and the sky has 
C#
claws
C#
theres a wind-up man walking round and round what 
F#
once was emerald city's 
A
now a crystal 
C#
town

Guitar Solo
C# C B F# Ab
C# C B F# A
C#

Dm
The wheelies are cutting pavement and the 
F
skeksis at the 
C
rave meant to 
A
hide deep inside their sunken 
Bb
faces and their wild rolling 
Dm
eyes but their callous words 
C#
reveal that they can no longer 
Ab
feel love or 
Cm
sex appeal 
Bb
the patchwork girl has come to cinch the 
C#
deal

Final Chorus
C# F# A C# (repeated until instrumental outro)

Outro
Dm C# Ab Cm Bb (Repeated until end)

I didn't tab out the middle solo but you can play the whole thing on the 3rd string.
Enjoy.

comments: ejb013@students.stir.ac.uk
Show more