Strange Magic

by Electric Light Orchestra · posted by WaltP

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−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab

STRANGE MAGIC (diatonic)
By: Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
Key: G

   5     4  -4    5 -44   4     -4   5
You're sail-ing soft-ly through the sun
4 -4  5  -4    4    5    5
In a bro-ken stone age dawn.
 5  -4   5 -44-3”
You fly so high.

-3”4 -3”  -4    -4  4
I get a strange mag-ic,
-4   4 -3”3  -4    -4  4
Oh, what a strange mag-ic,
-4    4-3”3   -4   -4  4
Oh, it's a strange mag-ic.
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic,
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic.

   5     4  -4    5  -44  4 -4   5
You're walk-ing mead-ows in my mind,
 4  -4    5  -4   4    5   5
Mak-ing waves a-cross my time,
 5 -4   5-44-3”
Oh no, oh no.

-3”4 -3”   -4   -4  4
I get a strange mag-ic,
-4   4 -3*3   -4   -4  4
Oh, what a strange mag-ic,
-4   4 -3:3   -4   -4  4
Oh, it's a strange mag-ic.
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic,
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic.

4     5  4  -4  5   5
Oh, I'm nev-er gon-na 
-4  4    4 -4   5
be the same a-gain,
4    -4    5   5  -4   -4   4   5  5
Now I've seen the way it's got to end,
  5     -4     5   -44-3”
Sweet dream, sweet dream.

  -4    -4  4 
Strange mag-ic,
-4    4-3”3  -4    -4  4
Oh, what a strange mag-ic,
-4    4-3”3  -4    -4  4
Oh, it's a strange mag-ic.
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic,
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
 6  7   -7   -8-77 7
Got a strange mag-ic.

 4    4   5   4    6   5   4   -4   5
It's mag-ic, it's mag-ic, it's mag-ic.

  -4    -4  4
Strange mag-ic,
-4    4-3”3  -4    -4  4
Oh, what a strange mag-ic,
-4   4 -3”3  -4    -4  4
Oh, it's a strange mag-ic.
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic.
-6  7    -8   8-87 7
Got a strange mag-ic.

 7   -6  7  7 -6   -7    8-87 7
You know I got a strange mag-ic
 7   -6  7  7 -6   -7    8-87 7
You know I got a strange mag-ic…

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