Heroes Chords & Tabs

by David Bowie

[Content]
eroes chords **
David Bowie 1977 (Heroes) *'this version'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_album)

[Intro]
D  G  D  G

[Verse]
D                    G   
I - I wish you could swim
         D                            G   
Like the dolphins - like dolphins can swim
       C                                D     
Though nothing - nothing will keep us together
       Am       Em            D   
We can beat them  forever and ever
             C     G             D  
Oh we can be Heroes just for one day

[Instrumental]
D  G  D  G

[Verse]
D             G   
I - I will be King
    D                 G    
And you - you will be Queen
    C                        D  
For nothing will drive them away
          Am     Em             D  
We can be Heroes - just for one day
          C  G              D  
We can be us - just for one day

[Verse]
D           G                  
I - I can remember (I remember)
D               G                 
Standing by the wall (By the wall)
        D            G                              
And the guards shot above our heads (Over our heads)
       D                              G                        
And we kissed as though nothing would fall (Nothing could fall)

[Bridge]
        C                D         
And the shame was on the other side
          Am           Em       D   
Oh we can beat them forever and ever
               C      G             D  
Then we can be Heroes  just for one day

[Instrumental]
D  G  D  G

[Outro]
D         G     D
We can be Heroes
          G     D
We can be Heroes
          G                   D  
We can be Heroes just for one day
          G     
We can be Heroes
*  This version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI
** Alternates:
Open (These chords are not in the original key)
D  = G
G  = C
C  = F
Em = Am
Am = Dm
D  = E
G  = A
C  = D
Em = F#m
Am = Bm
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