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(Gm7)Is this the real life?
(G7)Is this just fan ta sy?
(F7)Caught in a land slide, no es (Bb)cape from (F7)re (Bb)al i ty.
(G)O pen your eyes,
look (Bb7)up to the skies
and (Eb)see.
(C)I’m just a poor boy,
(F7)I need no sym pa thy, be cause I’m (CN.C.)eas y come, eas y go, lit tle high, lit tle low, (Eb)An y way the (Bb)wind blows, (C#dim)does n’t real ly (F7)mat ter to me,
to (Bb)me.
(Bb)Ma ma,
just (G)killed a man,
put a (C)gun a gainst his head, pulled my (F7)trig ger now he’s dead.
(Bb)Ma ma,
life had (G)just be gun,
but (C)now I’ve gone and thrown it all a (Am7)way.
(Eb)Ma ma,
(Bb)ooh,
did n’t (F)mean to make you cry,
if (Bb)I’m not back a gain this time to (Eb)mor row, car ry (Bb)on,
car ry (C)on
as if (Ab)noth ing real ly mat (Eb)ters.
(C)Noth ing real ly (G)mat ters,
(C)an y one can (G)see,
(C)noth ing real ly (Ab)mat ters,
(Eb)noth ing real ly (Bbsus4)mat ters (Bb)to (Eb)me.
This page shows “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Eb at 72 BPM, a slightly more challenging arrangement — practice each phrase slowly first.
This arrangement is a fantastic chord-vocabulary workout — fifteen different chords means your hands will meet major, minor, dominant seventh, diminished, and sus4 shapes all in one piece. At 72 BPM you have breathing room, so use it: focus on landing each new chord shape cleanly rather than rushing ahead. The trickiest moments will be transitions into C#dim and Abm, since those shapes sit outside the usual Eb-major comfort zone — isolate those two-bar passages and loop them hands-separate until the fingering feels automatic. Watch the shift between Ab and Abm especially; it's just one note moving a half step, but under pressure your fingers will want to skip it. Work section by section rather than top-to-bottom, because each part of the song has its own texture. By the end, you'll have a real command of quick chord-type changes — a skill that transfers to almost everything else you'll learn.