This is such a great song and its really not to hard.
Standard tuing, and you can use a capo on the third fret but its not
nessicary
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/indigo_girls/galileo_crd_ver_3.html ]
Intro:E, E9, A, B7
E A B7
Galileo's head was on the block
E A B7
The crime was looking uo the truth
E A B7
and as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
C#m A B7
I try to trace them to my youth
E A B7
and you had to bring up reincarnation
E A B7
over a couple of bears the other night
E A
and now i;m serving time for mistakes
C#m B7
made by another in another lifetime
E E9 A
C: How long till my soul gets iy right?
B7 E E9 A
any human being coulkd ever reach that kind of light?
B7 C#m
I call on the resting soul
F#
of Galileo
F#7 A B7 E
King of night vision, king of insight
V2:The I think about my fear of motion
of which I never could explain
some other fool across the ocean years ago
must have crashed his little airplane
chorous
C#m A
Bridge: I'm not making a joke
F# A
you know me I take everything so seriously
C#m A
If we wait for the time till our souls get it right
B7
then atleast i know there'll be no nuclear anilation
E
in my life time
A
I'm still not right
[INsturmental: PLay first 2 lines of chorous 3 times the finish the
chorous. The play the first two lines again twice]
V3(softly): I offer thanks to those before me
thats all I gotta say
cuz u may have squandered big bucks in your lifetime
well now i have to pay
then it feels like some sort of inspiration
to let the next life off the hook
and she'll say "Look what I had to overcome in my past life
I think I'll write a book!"
Chorous, end on E
Hope it helps! later
_er bear
