Galileo
Emily Saliers

Indigo Girls
Rites of Passage
1992

This song was played at the concert as well, and someday
I will pick up the album but for now the MP3 will have to
do.  Hope you enjoy the song.  And before all you
Fundamentalists try to kill all the scientists (like me),
listen to this song and answer the question: "Who was right?"

Chords

Capo 1st

INTRO (2x):

   E                 F#m7              E/B               AaddA
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-0-----0---0-0-0-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-5---5-5-5-4-----|
B:-0-----0---0-0-0-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-2---2-2-2-2-----|
G:-1-----1---1-1-1-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-1---1-1---1-1-1-|-2---2-2-2-2---2-|
D:-2-----2---2-2-2-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-2---2-2-2-2---2-|
A:-2-----2---2-2-2-|-4-----4---4-4-4-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-0---0-0-0-0---0-|
E:-0-----0---0-0-0-|-2-----2---2-2-2-|-----------------|-----------------|

for the first three lines, play the intro tab

Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up for truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
         C#m        G#m     A    B
I try to trace them to my youth


And then you had to bring up reincarnation
Over a couple of beers the other night
And now I'm serving time for mistakes
Made by another in another lifetime

CHORUS
    E            B            A
How long till my soul gets it right
    B         E          B                  A       B
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
              C#m      G#m    F#
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
        A           B        E
King of Night Vision King of Insight

E...


And then I think about my fear of motion
Which I never could explain
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Must have crashed his little airplane

CHORUS
How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of Night Vision King of Insight

BRIDGE
C#m                 A
  I'm not making a joke you know me
       A#º           A
I take everything so seriously
      C#m                        A
If we wait for the time till all souls get it right
        B                     A       B           A
Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation
      E       B              A     B
In my lifetime I'm still not right

SOLO
E	B	A	B
E	B	A	B
C#m	G#m	F#
A	B	E
E	B	A	B
E	B	A	B
E	B	A	B
E	B	A	B

verse chords

I offer thanks to those before me
That's all I've got to say
'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now I have to pay

But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
To let the next life off the hook
But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life
I think I'll write a book"

CHORUS
How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach the highest light
Except for Galileo god rest his soul (except for the resting soul of Galileo) 
King of Night Vision King of Insight

E...

OUTRO
    E
how long
         B            A       B
(till my soul gets it right)
[til we reach the highest light]
    E
how long
         B            A       B
(till my soul gets it right)
[til we reach the highest light]
    C#m     G#m     A     B
how long

end on E


CHORDS:

E/B	x22100
F#m7	242222
AaddA	x02225
C#m	x46654
G#m	466444
A#º	6786xx or x1232x


To learn why these chords are named this way, check out Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory.