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Version 1 Version 2
Song: Cloudbusting
Artist: Kate Bush
Album: Hounds of love
Tabbed by: DJ 11th Sept 2014
CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of C#m)
For keyboards, bass etc, use the transpose function set to
+4 to view chords in the key of C#m.
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am7 = x02010 F6 = 100211 Am/C = x32210 Am = x02210
G = 320033 Gsus4 = 3x0013 G/B = x20033 Asus4 = x02230
[The end riff of the 1st and 3rd lines of Verses 1 and 3]
Am Asus4 G Gsus4 F6
e |---------------------------|--------------------------|
B |--1-----1-h3---0-----0-h1--|--1-----1-----1-----1-----|
G |--2-----2------0-----0-----|--2-----2-----2-----2-----|
D |-(2)---(2)-----------------|--------------------------|
A |--0-----0------------------|--------------------------|
E |---------------3-----3-----|--1-----1-----1-----1-----|
[Chorus riff]
Am7 G
e |--------------------------|-----------------------------|
B |--1-----1-p0--1-----1-p0--|--0-----0------0--h1--0------|
G |--0-----0-----0-----0-----|--0-----0--h2------------2---|
D |--------------------------|-----------------------------|
A |--0-----0-----0-----0-----|-----------------------------|
E |--------------------------|--3-----3--------------------|
F6 G
e |--------------------------|-----------------------------|
B |--1-----1-----1-----1-----|--0-----0------0--h1--0------|
G |--2-----2-p0--2-----2-p0--|--0-----0--h2------------2---|
D |--------------------------|-----------------------------|
A |--------------------------|-----------------------------|
E |--1-----1-----1-----1-----|--3-----3--------------------|
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[Verse 1]
Am7 G F6 G Am Asus4 G Gsus4
I still dream of Orgo - non,
F6 G
I wake up crying,
Am7 G F6 G Am Asus4 G Gsus4
You're mak - ing rain, and you're just in reach,
F6 G
When you, and sleep, es - cape me
[Verse 2]
Am/C G/B G Am G
You're like my yo -yo ...that glowed in the dark,
Am/C G/B G Am G
What made it special ...made it danger - ous,
Am/C G/B G G
So I bury it... ^
G G Am7 G F6 G
^ ^ And for - get | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Chorus]
Am7 G F6
But every time it rains, you're here in my head,
G Am7
Like the sun coming out,
G F6 G
Oo----, oh, I just know that something good is gonna happen,
Am7 G
I don't know when,
F6 G
But just saying it could even make it happen
[Verse 3]
Am7 G F6 G Am Asus4 G Gsus4
On top of the world, looking over the edge,
F6 G
You could see them coming,
Am7 G F6 G Am Asus4 G Gsus4
You looked too small in their big, black car,
F6 G
To be a threat to the men in power
[Verse 4]
Am/C G/B G Am G
I hid my yo -yo ...in the gar - den,
Am/C G/B G Am G
I can't hide you ...from the govern - ment,
Am/C G/B G G G
Oh, God, Daddy... ^ ^
G G Am7 G F6 G
I wo - n't for - get | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
^ ^
[Chorus]
Am7 G F6
'Cause every time it rains, you're here in my head,
G Am7
Like the sun coming out,
G F6 G
Oo-----, oh, I just know that something good is gonna happen,
Am7 G
I don't know when,
F6 G F6 G
But just saying it could even make it happen------! Oh---!
[Break]
Am7 G F6 G
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[Chorus]
Am7 G F6 G Am7
And every time it rains, you're here in my head,
G F6 G Am7
Like the sun coming out, like your son's coming out,
G F6 G
Oo-----, oh, I just know that something good is gonna happen,
Am7 G
I don't know when,
F6 G F6 G
But just saying it could even make it happen------! Oh------!
[Verse 5]
Am7 G F6 G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Am7 G F6 G Am7
Oo, hoo! Oh, just saying it could even make it happen------
G F6 G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
Am7 G F6 G
(Yeh -ee, yeh -ee, yeh -ee-----, yoh!)
[Verse 6]
Am7
I'm Cloudbusting, Daddy!
G F6 G Am7
(Yeh - ee, yeh - ee, yeh - ee, yoh------------!)
G F6 G Am7
(Yeh - ee, yeh - ee, yeh - ee-------, yoh!)
G F6 G Am7
(Yeh - ee, yeh - ee, yeh - ee, yoh-------------!)
G F6 G
(Yeh -ee, yeh -ee, yeh - ee-------, yoh!)
[Coda]
Am7 G F6 G Am7
Your son's coming out, your son's coming out
(Yeh -ee, yeh -ee, yeh -ee, yoh--------!)