Wicked - Defying Gravity Chords & Tabs

 

Defying Gravity Chords & Tabs

Wicked Chords & Tabs

Version: 3 Type: Chords

Defying Gravity Chords

   
Capo 1 to match recorded pitch

Chords:
For many of these I suggest reaching the thumb over instead of doing a barre. 
Whatever is comfortable.
Also, you can substitute the standard version of these chords and it sounds fine.

Cmaj7  Bmaj7  Bbmaj7  Amaj7   Dmaj7  C#maj7  Cmaj7  Bmaj7  Fadd9  F*  C*
  X     X       X       X       5       4      3      2      3    1   0
  8     7       6       5       7       6      5      4      1    1   1
  9     8       7       6       6       5      4      3      2    0   0
  9     8       7       6       7       6      5      4      3    3   0
  X     X       X       X       5       4      3      2      X    3   3
  8     7       6       5       X       4      3      2      1    1   3

Cmaj7
I hope you're happy
B
I hope you're happy now
Bbmaj7
I hope you're happy how you
A
Hurt your cause forever
  Bb                    B
I hope you think you're clever

Bmaj7
I hope you're happy
Bb
I hope you're happy too
Amaj7 
I hope you're proud how you
G#
Would grovel in submission
   A                Bb
To feed your own ambition 

Bbmaj7                   Dmaj7
So though I can't imagine how 
                          A
I hope you're happy right now

[-5-----------5-----]
[-5-------------9-5-]
[-6-----------------]
[-7-----------------]
[-7--------7--------]
[-5—-5-4-5----------]

(Elphie, listen to me - just say you're sorry...)

        D#        D#sus2    Bb
You can still be with the wizard
            D#         D#sus2 Bb
What you've worked and waited for
         D#                 Bb
You can have all you ever wanted

                              D#sus2           Bb         C
(I know...) But I don't want it - No - I can't want it anymore

C             F9
Something has changed within me
C            F*
Something is not the same
C                F9             C
I'm through with playing by the rules
           Bb
Of someone else's game
Bbsus2        C
Too late for second-guessing
Bbsus2                  C
Too late to go back to sleep
     Bb       C
It's time to trust my instincts
F                 G
Close my eyes and leap

             Am
It's time to try
F       G
Defying gravity
             Am
I think I'll try
F       G
Defying gravity
                       C  C* F  F*
And you can't pull me down

                      C            C*        F          F*
Can't I make you understand, you're having delusions of grandeur...? 
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/w/wicked/defying_gravity_crd_ver_3.html ]
C             F*
I'm through accepting limits
 C             F*
'Cause someone says they're so
 C             F*
Some things I cannot change
     F                Bb
But 'till I try, I'll never know
Bbsus2        C
Too long I've been afraid of
Bbsus2               C
Losing love - I guess I've lost
Bb               C
Well, if that's love
            F               G
It comes at much too high a cost 

           Am
I'd sooner buy
  F     G
Defying gravity
            Am
Kiss me goodbye
      F       G
I'm defying gravity
                      F*
And you can't pull me down...

Glinda, come with me. Think of what we could do - together.

  F   C
Unlimited
                 F   C
Together we're unlimited
              Gm7              Em
Together we'll be the greatest team
             F     F9  F
There's ever been, Glinda,
C                 F
Dreams the way we planned them
C             F
If we work in tandem
Bbsus2/F            C#maj7  (Bbsus2/F)
There's no fight we cannot win

             Am
Just you and I
   F    G
Defying gravity
            Am
With you and I
  F     G
Defying gravity

                       F*
They'll never bring us down
                       G# (with fill from above 1/2 step down)
(Well? Are you coming?)

Cmaj7
I hope you're happy
Bm
Now that you're choosing this
           Bb
(You too)- I hope it brings you bliss
  A
I really hope you get it
        Bb
And you don't live to regret it
Bmaj7                      D#
I hope you're happy in the end
D#                      Bb     Bbsus4  C   Csus4
I hope you're happy, my friend

C
So if you care to find me
F* (F)
Look to the western sky
C          G
As someone told me lately
F          F*                   Bb
Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly
           C            Bb
And if I'm flying solo
               C         Bb
At least I'm flying free
               C
To those who'd ground me
       Bb                G
Take a message back from me

             Am
Tell them how I
     F     G
Am defying gravity!
           Am
I'm flying high
  F     G
Defying gravity!
              Am             F*
And soon I'll match them in renown
    C         F*
And nobody in all of Oz
   C                 F*
No wizard that there is or was
   F          G        Am
Is ever gonna bring me down! (I hope you're happy)
                   F
[Look at her she's wicked! Get her!]
         Am
Bring me down!
[No one mourns the wicked]
           F  G  G#    B   C
[So we've got to bring her down!]