This file is part of a collection that (moreso than the rest of the site) are not meant to be detailed or accurate transcriptions of the original recordings. They're just some simple chord charts that I made for my own use, some of them my own arrangements.
- T-rev
"GALILEO" by Indigo Girls www.indigogirls.com
From their 1992 album Rites of Passage
Written By Emily Saliers
Transcribed by T-rev www.t-rev.net
Capo 5th fret
C G4 F G7 G6
Galileo's head was on the block
C G4 F G7 G6
The crime was looking up the truth
C G4 F G
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
Am Em F G7 G6
I try to trace them to my youth
C G4 F G7 G6
And then you had to bring up reincarnation
C G4 F G7 G6
Over a couple of beers the other night
C G4 F G
And now I'm serving time for mistakes made
Am Em F G
By another in another lifetime
C G4 F
How long till my soul gets it right
G4 C G4 F
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
G Am Em D
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
F G (C G F G)
King of night vision, king of insight
C G4 F G7 G6
And then I think about my fear of motion
C G4 F G7 G6
Which I never could explain
C G4 F G
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Am Em F G
Must have crashed his little airplane
C G4 F
How long till my soul gets it right
G4 C G4 F
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
G Am Em D
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
F G C
King of night vision, king of insight
Am Am#5
I'm not making a joke, you know me
A6 Am#5
I take everything so seriously
Am Am#5
If we wait for the time till all souls get it right
G F G F
Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation
C G4 F G
In my lifetime, I'm still not right
C G4 F G
I offer thanks to those before me
C G4 F G
That's all I've got to say
C G4 F G
'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Am Em F G
Now I have to pay
C G4 F G
But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
C G4 F G
To let the next life off the hook
C G4 F G
But she'll say look what I had to overcome from my last life
Am Em F G
I think I'll write a book
C G4 F
How long till my soul gets it right
G4 C G4 F
Can any human being ever reach the highest light
G Am Em D
Except for Galileo, God rest his soul
F G C G F G C
King of night vision, king of insight
Transcribed 2023-01-16 by T-rev
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Standard-tuned shapes for key of C relative to 5th fret capo:
x32010 C
3x0013 Gsus4
133211 F
3x0001 G7
3x0000 G6
3x0003 G
x02210 Am
022000 Em
xx0232 D
x03210 Am#5
x04210 Am6
This will be similar to Emily's guitar part.
Emily tuned DADGBC in C relative to capo on 5th fret
Amy standard tuned in E relative to capo on 1st fret
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