BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY BY QUEEN
transcribed by Maxxdaddy
No, this is not merely the Brian May guitar solo transcription, but rather
a tab of a classical guitar version I heard on the radio.
However, it includes all of May's guitar work, Mercury's vocal melody
as well as the piano lines, so it will serve the needs of anyone who wants
to learn the underlying elements of this masterpiece. I also threw in the
lyrics for good measure. It has one of the best pseudo-classical outros
I've ever heard.
(except for maybe Roundabout)
Intro:
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-7--7--7--7---7--7--7--7--7--7-----7----5--5--5--7--5-------
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2x
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Verse:
2x 2x
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--------2------5---2h5--2-----2---------2-----7--------7----7--2h3p2-0----2--1-
-2----2---------------------2-------2---------7-----7-----7----2----------2--2-
----2--------2---2--------4------4-----------------------------4--------4------
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------------------------2---------------------7-----------6------------------0-
-----------2--2------------0---2h3----------2--
-0---------3-----3------------------3----3-----
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---------------------------4--------2--------2-
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*
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-0-----------0----------5--5----------2-----------3------------2---
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-------------------------------------------------------------------
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---4---------5--------0--12-------------------------------
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repeat verse until *
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---------------------------------------12---12-10-10---3------2-3-5-----2-
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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-------------------------------------------------------------------
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--------------------------------------------------------------------6--6--6-
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Harm H H
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--------------0------------------------------------0--7-7--6--7--0-0--7--6-6--7-
-----11--------------------------------------------0--7-7--4--7--0-0--7--4-4--7-
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-----------------------6--5-5--4--5--6--5-5--4--5-------------------------------
mute
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4x
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8x
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3x
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Outro:
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----------2----2-----3-----3------------------------2-----------------3---
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-0-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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-------------------------------------------------------2-----2-----2------2-
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---------------------------------------------0------------------------2---0-
Lyrics:
Is this the real life -
Is this just fantasy -
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
F#m A D
Open your eyes Look up to the skies and see
Bm7 E
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Bb A Ab A Bb A Ab A
easy come, easy go, little high, little low
D A/C# Cdim E7/B E7/D Bb
Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me to me.
A F#m
Mama just killed a man
Bm Bm7 E
put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead
A F#m Bm F#5/A# D/A Bbdim
Mama life had just begun, but now I've gone and thrown it all away
D A/C# Em B/D# G/D C#dim A A6 A7 D
Mama Oooo didn't mean to make you cry, if I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
A/C# Bm Gm D
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.
A F#m
Too late, my time has come
Bm Bm7 E
Sent shivers down my spine, body's achin' all the time,
A F#m
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go,
Bm F#5/A# D/A Bbdim Amaj7 D/A
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
D A/C# Bm Em B/D# G/D C#dim A A6 A7
Mama Ooo I don't want to die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
C#/G# Bb Bbdim Ab Db/Ab Ab Abdim
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Ab Db/Ab Ab Db/Ab Ab Abdim Ab Db/Ab Ab
Scaramouche Scaramouche will you do the fandango?
C/G G C/G G C/G Db7 Ab
Thunder bolts and lightening very very frightening me
Galileo Galileo Galileo Galileofigaro Magnifico oh oh oh
Bb A Ab A Bb A Ab A
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
G/D D Ddim D G/D D Ddim D
He's just a poor boy, from a poor family
G D/F# E7 A
spare him his life from this monstrosity
G/D D Bdim A7sus
Bb A Ab A Bb A Adim
Easy come easy go will you let me go?
A5 D A5 D Asus A Asus A
Bismillah NO, we will not let you go
Let him go
A D A Asus A Asus A
Bismillah we will not let you go Let him go
A D A Asus A Asus A
Bismillah we will not let you go Let him go
Asus A Asus A Asus A Asus A
will not let you go let me go will not let you go
let me go oh oh oh oh oh
Ab Db C F A5 D5 D A D A
no no no no no no no Oh mamamia mamamia mamamia let me go
D G C#7 F#m A5
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me for me for me
D F
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye -
So you think you can love me and leave to die -
Oh Baby - Can't do this to me baby -
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here -
Bm F#m Bm F#m
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Bm Gm G/A D G/D Eb
nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me
Ddim A/C# Cmaj13 B Cdim B E
A E Edim B7sus
Any way the wind blows
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