David Bowie - Life On Mars
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From: Harlan L Thompson
LIFE ON MARS?- David Bowie
G G/F# Dm/F E7 Am
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
Am/G D/F# G
But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
G/F# Dm/F
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
E7 Am
as she walks through her sunken dream
Am/G D/F#
To the seat with the clearest view
Bb
and she's hooked to the silver screen
Bb+ Gm
But the film is a saddening bore
G# Eb
For she's lived it ten times or more
G7 Cm Eb
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on
CHORUS:
C F G
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
Am Fm G Gm Dm
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show
Fm C F G
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
Am Fm G Gm Dm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show
Fm Am C+ Am7 D7 F Gsus4 D
Is there life on Mars?
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
>From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on ...CHORUS
Bb+: 2 2 4 3 3 2 Eb: x 6 5 3 4 3
C+: x 0 2 1 1 0 Gsus4: 3 2 0 0 1 3
Dm/F: 1 x 0 2 3 1
NOTE: For the verse, pick with the following pattern- the base note and
first and second strings all simultaneously, then the third string. For
the chorus, strum.
(from Hunky Dory, 1971)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)