Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

capo: 3rd fret

[intro]

Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Em
Open your eyes
G7 C
Look up to the skies and see
Am
I’m just a poor boy
D7
I need no sympathy
G# G F# G
Because i’m easy come, easy go
G# G F# G
Little high, little low
C G/B
Any way the wind blows
Bbdim7 D7
Doesn’t really matter to me
G
To me

[verse]

G Em
Mama, just killed a man
Am
Put a gun against his head pulled my trigger
D
Now he’s dead
G Em
Mama, life had just begun
Am D
But now i’ve gone and thrown it all away
C G Am
Mama ooo
Dm
Didn’t mean to make you cry
G
If i’m not back again
C
This time tomorrow
G Am
Carry on, carry on
Fm C G
As if nothing really matters —

[verse]

G Em
Too late, my time has come
Am
Sends shivers down my spine
Am D
Body’s aching all the time
G Em
Goodbye everybody – i’ve got to go
Am
Gotta leave you all behind
D
And face – the truth
C G Am
Mama ooo – ( any way the wind blows )
Dm
I don’t want to die
G C
I sometimes wish i’d never been born at all

[solo]

C G Am Dm G
C G Am Dm Bb
Bb A G# G F#

[interlude (1)]

B F# B F#
I see a little silhouetto of a man
F# B F# B
Scaramouche, scaramouche
F# B F#
Will you do the fandango
A# F
Thunderbolt and lightning
A C# F#
Very very frightening me
—
Galileo, galileo
Galileo, galileo
Galileo, figaro – magnifico

G# G F# G
I’m just a poor boy
G# G F# G
No-body loves me
F C Cdim C F C Cdim C
He’s just a poor boy from a poor fami-ly
F C/E D G
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

F C/E D#dim Dm7
G# G F# G
Easy come, easy go
G# G F# G C
Will you let me go? bismillah!
G C
No, we will not let you go bismillah!
G C
We will not let you go
G
Bismillah! – we will not let you go
Will not let you go will not let you go
D#7
Aaahhh
G#m F# B A# D# G C
No, no, no, no, no, no, no oh, mama mia, mama mia
C G
Mama mia, let me go
C F B Em G
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me

[music]
C C C D

[interlude (2)]

G C G Bb
so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
G C F
so you think you can love me and leave me to die
Dm G Dm G
Oh, baby – can’t do this to me, baby
Dm G Dm G C
Just gotta get out – just gotta get right outta here

[instrumental]
C C C D
Ab F G G G
C G Am E Am E Am G C B Em F C

[outro]

Am Em
Nothing really matters
Am Em
Anyone can see,
Am Fm
Nothing really matters
F/G C
Nothing really matters to me