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Bohemian Rhapsody (Classical Version) Guitar Tablature
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY BY QUEEN

Posted by:Myke Day

I didn't tab this myself, and I have no idea who did. But it is such a great song, It thought it best to share it all with you. It's hard, and does take a lot of practice, but the results are incredable. Enjoy

Myke
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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Verse:
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repeat verse until *

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                                                             mute
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Outro:                                       
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----------2----2-----3-----3------------------------2-----------------3---

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-0-----3-3-0--2--3--------10-12---12---10--------10---9----9----5----5---
-0---------------------11----12---12---11-----11-----10---10----6--6-----
-0---------------0--12-----------------12--12----------------------------
-0-----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------5--------

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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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