Scissor Sisters - Return To Oz Chords & Tabs

Title: Return to Oz
Author: Scissor Sisters
Transcription by: Eddy Burns

Note: All guitars are tuned half-step down
eg. E->Eb, A->Ab etc.

Intro
Dm

Verse 1
Dm
Once there was a man who had a 
F
little too much
C
time on his hands 
A
he never stopped to think that he was getting 
Bb
older 
Dm
when his night came to an end
Db
he tried to grasp his for his last friend 
Ab
and pretend that he could wish himself 
Cm
health on a four-leaf 
Bb
clover

Chorus
Db
He said is this the return to oz the grass is
F#
dead the gold is 
A
brown and the sky has 
Db
claws
Db
theres a wind-up man walking round and round what 
F#
once was emerald City's 
A
now a crystal 
Db
town
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/scissor_sisters/return_to_oz_crd.html ]
Verse 2
Dm
It's three o'clock in the morning you get a 
F
phone call from the 
C
queen with a hundred 
A
heads she says that they're all 
Bb
dead 
Dm
she tried the last one on it couldn't speak fell off and 
Db
now she just wanders the halls thinking 
Ab
nothing 
Cm
thinking nothing at 
Bb
all

Chorus
Db
She said is this the return to oz the grass is
F#
dead the gold is 
A
brown and the sky has 
Db
claws
Db
theres a wind-up man walking round and round what 
F#
once was emerald city's 
A
now a crystal 
Db
town

Guitar Solo
Db C B F# Ab
Db C B F# A
Db

Dm
The wheelies are cutting pavement and the 
F
skeksis at the 
C
rave meant to 
A
hide deep inside their sunken 
Bb
faces and their wild rolling 
Dm
eyes but their callous words 
Db
reveal that they can no longer 
Ab
feel love or 
Cm
sex appeal 
Bb
the patchwork girl has come to cinch the 
Db
deal

Final Chorus
Db F# A Db (repeated until instrumental outro)

Outro
Dm Db Ab Cm Bb (Repeated until end)

I didn't tab out the middle solo but you can play the whole thing on the 3rd string.
Enjoy.

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