Blue Telescope

BLUE TELESCOPE - John Hiatt

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+ + + + + + + + (Acoustic enters

|Csus4 C Csus2 C|Csus4 C Csus2 | x4 after 2nd time)

I've got a blue telescope, I'm looking at the world tonight

Through a blue telescope; I wish I may, I wish I might

F Csus4 etc

Not see what I see - sheet metal on sheets of ice

G Csus4 etc

Looking through this blue telescope down a moonstruck road tonight

Blue breath on my windshield, I came to a frozen place

She shivered when I said goodbye - I wish I didn't have to face

Her in that rear-view mirror, though she lives in the heart of me

Looking through this blue telescope

I guess she'll always be a star to me

The heavens vast and wide

Wait to escort the bride

She lifts her wedding veil

Her breath a lonesome vapour trail

<Solo> (Same chords as verse)

I got this blue telescope - I'm looking for her tonight

Through a blue telescope; tell me, why must the blue angels fight?

Taking one last shot at heaven while they slip stream through paradise

Looking through this blue telescope down a moonstruck road tonight

I'm looking through this blue telescope down a moonstruck road tonight

I've got a blue telescope

Blue telescope

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Chords used: C-x3201x, Csus4-x3301, Csus2-x3001x, G-320033,

G/B-x20033, Am-x02210, Em-022000

NB This becomes much easier to sing (for my voice anyway), if you play

it in Bb - the riff thingy works in G too, so you can play it in G

with a capo on the third fret. No I won't transpose all the chords for

you, you lazy swine...

Enjoy!

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Bridge: (Overdub guitar)

+ + + + + + + +

|-------17----------15----|-------13----------12-13-12-------|

|-----17----------17------|-----13----------15---------15-13-|

|---17----------16--------|---14----------12-----------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

+ + + + + + + +

|-------17----------15----|-------13----------15-17-15-------|

|-----17----------17------|-----13----------15---------17-15-|

|---17----------16--------|---14----------16-----------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

+ + + + + + + +

|-------17----------15----|-------13----------12-13-12-------|

|-----17----------17------|-----13----------15---------15-13-|

|---17----------16--------|---14----------12-----------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

+ + + + + + + +

|-------17----------15----|-------15----------15----|

|-----17----------17------|-----13----------13------|

|---17----------16--------|---14----------14--------|

|-------------------------|-------------------------|

|-------------------------|-------------------------|

|-------------------------|-------------------------|

+ + + +

|-------15----17--17-15------------------|

|-----15-------------------15-17-15------|

|---16------------------------------16---|

|----------------------------------------|

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Solo: - played WITHOUT a plectrum

Let ring throughout

+ + + + + . + . + . + .

-----|-----------------|----------------------------|

-----|-----------------|-----8----------------------|

-7h9-9b10~~~~9~~~~--\7-9b10~~~~9~~~~~---------------|

-----|-----------------|-------------12h14p12p10-10-|

-----|-----------------|----------------------------|

-----|-----------------|----------------------------|

+ + + + + + + +

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

|---------8-----------8-----------|-8-------------------------------|

|-----7h9---9p7---7h9---9p7---7h9-|---9p7---7-------------------7h9-|

|---------------10----------10----|-------10----10------------------|

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

|---------|-------------|---------|---------------------------------|

|---------|/10-8-6-6---6|-6--5----|---------------------------------|

9b10------|----9-7-5-/7-|-5--5----|--/9---9-------9-------9---------|

|---------|-------------|---------|-----12----12------12------12-(10)

|---------|-------------|---------|---------------------------------|

|---------|-------------|---------|---------------------------------|

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + N.H.

|------------|-------------|----------------------|-------------|-12-|

|------------|----10-------|----------------------|-----------feedback

|------------|/12----12----|---9h10/12--------9h10|-9-\7--------|----|

|-12-------12|-------------|----------------------|-------10----|----|

|-10---------|-------------|----------------------|-------------|----|

|------------|-------------|----------------------|-------------|----|

Notation used:

+ = beat marker

. = 1/8th-note marker

h = hammer-on

p = pull-off

/ = slide

b = bend

~ = vibrato

N.H. = natural harmonic