Kate Bush - Hello earth
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Artist: Kate Bush
Song: Hello Earth
Album: Hounds of love
Tabbed by: DJ
29th Aug 2014
CAPO: 4th fret (Sounds in the key of C#m)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Am = x02210 C#4 = x46674 B = x24442
Em/G = 322000 C# = x46664 E/B = x22100
Dm/F = 10023x C#7 = x46464 A/B = x22220
G = 320033 F#/C# = x44322 A4 = x02230
F = 133211 C#m = x46654 Asus2 = x02200
Am7 = x02213
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Am Em/G Dm/F G
'Hello, Earth--------! Hello, Earth!'
Am With just one Dm/Fhand ...held up hGigh,
I can bAmlot youEm/G out, out of sAmight! Em/G
'Dm/FPeek -a -boo! Peek -a -boo!', litGtle Earth!
Am With just my Dm/Fheart and my mGind, I can be drAmiving,
Driving home, and Dm/Fyou asleep on the seat! G
I get oFut of my car, step iGnto the night,
And look Amup at theAsus2 sky, Am A4 Am Asus2
And thAmere's somethFing bright ...traveGling fast,
...Just look at it Amgo, just look at it Em/Ggo!
[Choral verse]
| C#4 / C#/ C#7 / / | / / | F#/C# / / / / | C#/ / C#7 / / |
| F#/C# / / | C#m / / / / | B/ / E/B / / | A/B / / E/B / / |
| B/ / C#/ / | / / / / |
Am 'Hello, Earth---Em/G----! Dm/F Hello, EGarth!'
Am Watching sDm/Ftorms ...start to fAmorm ...over America,
Can't Dm/F ...do anything,
Just waGtch them swing with the wind out to Amsea!
F G Am Asus2 Am Am7
All you sai - lors-------------,
(Get out of the waves, get out of the water!)
F G Am Asus2 Am Am7
All Life - Sa - vers------------,
(Get out of the waves, get out of the water!)
F G Am Asus2
All you cruis - ers--------------------------!
(Get out of the waves, get out of the water!)
All you FiFshermen ...hGead for home---F----, G
Go to sAmleep, little Earth!
I was thFere at the birth, oGut of the cloudburst,
The hAmead of the Asus2tem - pAmest, A4 Am Asus2 ...murFderer,
MuGrderer! Am Why did I go? Why did I Em/Ggo-------?
(Murderer ...of calm------------!)
[Choral verses]
||: C#4 / C#/ C#7 / / | / / | F#/C# / / / / | C#/ / C#7 / / |
| F#/C# / / | C#m / / / / | B/ / E/B / / | A/B / / E/B / / |
| B/ / C#/ / | / / / / :|| [x3]
[Whispered coda]
*Tiefer ...tiefer ...irgendwo in der tiefe ...gibt es ein licht!
Go to sleep, ...little Earth!
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[Translation]
* Deep ...deep ...somewhere in the depth ...there is light!
The choral parts were inspired by the Georgian song 'Tsintskaro'
that Kate had heard used in Werner Herzog's re-make of 'Nosferatu'.
It's not clear what the lyrics are, but the arranger, Richard Hickox,
discussed using a made-up language and Kate seemed to like the idea.