Trying To Get To Heaven Chords

KeyG Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays417

Trying To Get To Heaven by David Bowie is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, A, D, Bm, E, Em and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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    G              A      G 
The air is getting hotter 
                          D 
There's a rumbling in the skies 
G                                A 
I've been wading through the high  muddy water 
         G                      D 
With the heat rising through my eyes 
Bm                          G 
Every day your memory grows dimmer 
E                                D 
It doesn't hurt me like it did before 
G                             A 
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere 
G                                   D 
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door 

G             A        G 
People on the platforms 
                D 
Waiting for the trains 
G                         A 
I can hear their hearts a-beatin' 
     G                     D 
Like pendulums swinging on chains 
Bm                                G 
When you think that you lost everything 
         Em                               D 
You find out you can always lose a little more 
G                       A 
I'm just going down the road feeling bad 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 

D  G F       G   D 
Oooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh 

G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 

G                  A    G 
I'm going down the river 
              D 
Down to New Orleans 
G                                A 
They tell me everything is gonna be all right 
      G                                D 
But I don't know what "all right" even means 
Bm                    G     
I close my eyes and I wonder boys 
E                                D 
If everything is as hollow as it seems 
G                       A 
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down 
G                                           D 
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door 
G A  G                                   D 
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door . . . 


 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante