David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
Terrific album. Ive always loved it.
[Intro]
Cmaj7 Dbadd6 Dm7 Eb7
F D F D
[Verse 1]
C Em
I still don't know what I was waiting for
F G
And my time was running wild
F
A million dead end streets
C Em
Every time I thought I'd got it made
F G
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Ebm7
So I turned myself to face me
Dm7 G
But I've never caught a glimpse
Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Ebm7
Of how the others must see the faker
Dm7
I'm much too fast to take the test
[Chorus 1]
G F
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
C C/B C/A
Turn and face the strange
C/G
Ch-ch-changes
F F/E D
Don't want to be a richer man
G F
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
C C/B C/A
Turn and face the strange
C/G
Ch-ch-changes
F F/E D
It's gonna have to be a different man
Am G Bb F Em D7 G C
Time may change me but I can't trace time
[Verse 2]
C Em
I watched the ripples change there size
F G F
But never leave the stream of warm impermanence
C Em
And so the days float thru my eyes
F G
But still the days seem the same
Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7
And these children that you spit on
Ebm7 Dm7 G
As they try to change their worlds
Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7
Are immune to your consultations
Ebm7 Dm7
They're quite aware of what they're going thru
[Chorus 2]
G F
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
C C/B C/A
Turn and face the strange
C/G
Ch-ch-changes
F F/E D
Don't tell us to grow up and out of it
G F
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
C C/B C/A
Turn and face the strange
C/G
Ch-ch-changes
F F/E D
Where's your shame you've left us up to our necks in it
Am G Bb F Em D7 G C
Time may change me but I can't trace time
[Bridge]
F C F C
Strange fascination, fascinate me
F G
Oh changes are taking the pace I'm going thru
[Chorus 3]
G F
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
C C/B C/A
Turn and face the strange
C/G
Ch-ch-changes
F F/E D
Don't want to be a richer man
G F
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
C C/B C/A
Turn and face the strange
C/G
Ch-ch-changes
F F/E D
Pretty soon now your gonna get older
Am G Bb F Em D7 G C
Time may change me but I can't trace time
Am G Bb F Em D7 G C
I said that time may change me but I can't trace time
[Outro]
Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Eb7 Dm7 Dbadd6 Cmaj7
2. OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS
[Intro]
F# G# F# E D
F# G# F# E D D6 D D6 D D6 D D6
[Verse 1]
G D
Wake up you sleepy head
Esus4 Em
Put on some clothes shake off your bed
G D
Put another log on the fire for me
A E
I've made some breakfast and coffee
G D
Look out my window, what do I see
B7 Em F C
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
A7 D
All the nightmares came today
[Pre-Chorus]
G C#dim D D#dim D# B F#sus4 F#
And it looks as though they're here to stay
G D
What are we coming to
Esus4 Em
No room for me no fun for you
G D
I think about a world to come
A E
Where the books were found by the Golden Ones
G D
Written in pain written in awe
B7 Em C
By a puzzled man who questioned what we were here for
A7 D
All the strangers came today
G
And it looks as though they're here to stay
[Chorus 1]
G Bm Em
Oh you pretty things
D C7 G
Don't you know you're driving your mamas and papas insane?
G Bm Em
Oh you pretty things
D C7 G
Don't you know you're driving your mamas and papas insane?
A
Let me make it plain
D C G
Gotta make way for the homo superior
D
Look out at your children
Esus4 Em
See their faces in golden rays
G D
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
A E
They're the start of the coming race
G
The earth is a bitch
D
We've finished our news
B7 Em F C
Homo sapiens have outgrown their use
A7 D G
All the strangers came today and it looks as though they're here to stay
[Chorus 2]
F# G# F# E D F# G# F# E
D D6 D D6 D D6 D D6
C# C#6 D# D#6 F# C#
3. 8 LINE POEM
[Intro]
F C F C D E
F C F C F C
E F D G F
[Verse 1]
C F
Tactful cactus by your window
C F
Survey the prairie of your room
C D
Mobile spins to its collision
E F
Clara puts her head between her paws
C F
They've opened shops down on the westside
C F
Will all the cacti find a home?
C E
But the key to the city
F Dsus4 G F C
Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky Oh...oh
[Outro]
F C F C
F C F C
4. LIFE ON MARS?
[Verse 1]
F F/E F7
It's a God awful small affair
D7
To the girl with the mousy hair
Gm Gm7
But her mummy is yelling no
C C7 F
And her daddy has told her to go
F/E F7
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
D7
Now she walks through her sunken dream
Gm Gm7
To the seat with the clearest view
C C7
And she's hooked to the silver screen
Ab/Eb Ab#5/E
But the film is a saddening bore
Fm Ab7
For she's lived it ten times or more
Db F/A
She could spit in the eyes of fools
Bbm B
As they ask her to focus on
[Chorus 1]
Bb Eb
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm F#aug F
Oh man look at those cavemen go
Fm Cm7
It's the freakiest show
Ebm7 Bb Eb
Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy
Gm F#aug F
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
Fm Cm7
He's in the best selling show
Ebm7 Gm F#aug Bb Edim7
Is there life on mars?
[Solo]
F F#dim Gm G#dim Am Bb Bbm
[Verse 2]
F F/E F7
It's on Americas tortured brow
D7 Gm
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Gm7 C
Now the workers have struck for fame
C7
Cos Lennon's on sale again
F F/E F7
See the mice in their million hoards
D7 Gm
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Gm7 C
Rule Brittannia is out of bounds
C7
To my mother my dog and clowns
Ab/Eb Ab#5/E
But the film is a saddening bore
Fm Ab7
Cause I wrote it ten times or more
Db F/A
It's about to be writ again
Bbm B
As they ask her to focus on
[Chorus 2]
Bb Eb
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm F#aug F
Oh man look at those cavemen go
Fm Cm7
It's the freakiest show
Ebm7 Bb Eb
Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy
Gm F#aug F
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
Fm Cm7
He's in the best selling show
Ebm7 Gm F#aug Bb Edim7
Is there life on mars?
[Outro]
F F#dim Gm Bb Bb Bb Eb Ebm Bb
5. KOOKS
[Intro]
D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D Am
[Chorus 1]
D Dsus4 D Dsus4
Will you stay in our lovers story?
D Dsus4 D Dsus4
If you stay you won't be sorry
C C/B
Cause we believe in you
Am7 D Am7 D
Soon you'll grow so take a chance
Am7 D Am7 F C
With a couple of Kooks hung up on romancing
[Chorus 2/Intro]
D A
We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and dry
D A
And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry
D G
I bought you a pair of shoes
D G
A trumpet you can blow and a book of rules
D A
On what to say to people when they pick on you
Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty kookie too
[Chorus 3/Intro]
D A
And if you ever have to go to school
D A
Remember how they messed up this old fool
D G
Don't pick fights with the bullies or the cads
D G
Cause i'm not much cop at punching other peoples dads
D A
And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car down town
[Chorus 4]
E Esus4 E Esus4
Will you stay in our lovers story?
E Esus4 E Esus4
If you stay you won't be sorry
D D/C#
Cause we believe in you
Bm7 E Bm7 E
Soon you'll grow so take a chance
Bm7 E Bm7 G D
With a couple of Kooks hung up on romancing
6. QUICKSAND
[Intro]
G Am7 G Am7 G Am7 G Am7
[Verse 1]
C
I'm closer to the golden dawn
G Gsus4 G
Immersed in Crowley's uniform of imagery
C
I'm living in a silent film
G
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm of dream reality
Eb
I'm frightened by the total goal
F*
Drawing to the ragged hole
G Em C
And I ain't got the power any more
G Am7 Am9 Am9* A
no I ain't got the power any more
D
I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
A Asus4 A
Living proof of Churchills lies I'm destiny
D
I'm torn between the light and dark
A Asus4 A
Where others see their target divine symmetry
F
Should I kiss the vipers fang
G
Or herald loud the death of man?
A F#m7 Em7 D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts
A Asus4 A
And I ain't got the power any more
[Chorus 1]
A E7 F#m7
Don't believe in yourself
D#dim E
Don't deceive with belief
Edim Bm7
Knowledge comes with deaths release
F#dim A
Ah ah ah ah
F#m7 E6 E
Ah ah ah ah ah
D
I'm not a prophet or a stoneage man
A
Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on
D
I'm tethered to the logic of homo sapien
A
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith
F
If I don't explain what you ought to know
G
You can tell me all about it in the next bardot
A F#m7 Em7 D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts
A Asus4 A Asus4 A
And I ain't got the power any more
[Chorus 2,3]
[Chorus 4]
(no vocals)
7. FILL YOUR HEART
[Intro]
Emaj7 G Emaj7 G
[Verse 1]
E
Fill your heart with love today
A E
Don't play the game of time
Things that happen in the past
G D
Only happened in your mind
E F#m G#m
Only in your mind
A B E E7
oh forget your mind and you'll be free yeah
[Chorus 1]
A E E7
The writings on the wall free yeah
G D E F#m
And you can know it all if you choose
G#m A
Just remember lovers never lose
B E
Cause they are free of thoughts
B C#m G#m
Unpure and of thoughts unkind
E F#m
Gentleness cleans the soul
G#m A B E
Love cleans the mind and makes it free
[Solo]
A E G D E F#m G#m A B E
[Verse 2]
E
Happiness is happening
A E
The dragons have been bled
Gentleness is everywhere
G D
Fears just in your head
E F#m G#m
Only in your head fear is in your head
A B
Only in your head so forget your head
E E7
And you'll be free yeah
[Chorus 2]
A E G D E F#m G#m A B E
[Outro]
E E7 A E
Free, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah
E E7 A E
Free, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah
E E7 A E
Free, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah
E E7 A E
Free, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah, yeah
E E7 E
Free, yeah
8. ANDY WARHOL
CHORDS: EADGBE
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A X02220
G 320003
Em* 079900
C/B X22010
C 332010
D* 057700
Am7 X02010
Cmaj7 035500
D XX0232
Em 022000
[Intro]
Em* D* Cmaj7 D* Em* D* Cmaj7 D*
[Verse]
Em*
Like to take a cement fix
A
Be a standing cinema
C C/B
Dress my friends up just for show
A Em C D
See Them as they really are
Em
Put a peep hole in my brain
A
Two new pence to have a go
C C/B
I'd like to be a gallery
A Em C D
Put you all inside my show
[Chorus 1]
D A Em C
Andy Warhol looks a scream
A C G A
Hang him on my wall
D A Em C
Andy Warhol silver screen
A C G Am7 A
Can't tell them apart at all
[Intro]
Em* A
Andy walking Andy tired Andy take a little snooze
C C/B
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
A Em C D
Send him on a pleasant cruise
Em
When you wake up on the sea
A
Be sure to think of me and you
C
He'll think about paint and he'll think about glue
C/B A Em C D
What a jolly boring thing to do
[Chorus 2,3]
[Outro]
Em*
9. SONG FOR BOB DYLAN
[Intro]
A G#m F#m E A G#m F#m B
[Verse 1]
A G#m
Ah hear this Robert Zimmerman
F#m E
I wrote a song for you
A G#m
About a strange young man called Dylan
F#m E
With a voice like sand and glue
G#m C#m
Some words had truthful vengeance
B A
That could pin us to the floor
F#m G#m
Brought a few more people on
A B
And put the fear in a whole lot more
[Chorus 1]
A D A
Ah here she comes here she comes here she comes again
That same old painted lady
E
From the brow of the superbrain
F#m
She'll scratch this world to pieces
G
As she comes on like a friend
A
But a couple of songs from your old scrap book
E
Could send her home again
[Verse 2]
A G#m
You gave your heart to every bedsit room
F#m E
At least a picture on the wall
A G#m
And you sat behind a million pair of eyes
F#m E
And told them how they saw
G#m C#m
Then we lost your train of thought
B A
Your paintings are all your own
F#m
While troubles are rising
G#m A B
We'd rather be scared together than alone
[Chorus 2]
A G#m F#m E A G#m F#m B
[Verse 3]
A G#m
Now hear this Robert Zimmerman
F#m E
Though I don't suppose we'll meet
A G#m
Ask your good friend Dylan
F#m E
If he'd gaze a while down the old street
G#m C#m
Tell him we've lost his poems
B A
So we're writing on the walls
F#m G#m
Give us back our unity
A B
Give us back our family
F#m G#m
You're every nations refugee
A B
Don't leave us with our sanity
[Chorus 3]
A D A
Ah here she comes here she comes here she comes again
That same old painted lady
E
From the brow of the superbrain
F#m
She'll scratch this world to pieces
G
As she comes on like a friend
A
But a couple of songs from your old scrap book
E
Could send her home again
G
Oh a couple of songs from your old scrap book
A
Could send her home again
D
Oh here she comes
A
Ooh here she comes
D
And here she comes
[Outro Solo]
A G#m F#m E A G#m F#m B E
10. QUEEN BITCH
[Intro]
C G F C G F
C G F C G F
C G F C G F
C G F C G F
[Verse 1]
C F C G F C G F
I'm up on the eleventh floor and I'm watching the cruisers below
C F C G F C G F
He's down on the street and he's trying hard to pull sister Flo
C F C G F C G F
Oh, My heart's in the basement my weekend's at an all time low
C F
'Cause she's hoping to score so I can't see her letting him go
C E A
Walk out of her heart walk out of her mind, Oh not her
[Chorus 1]
B D B D
She's so swishy in her satin and tat in her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
B C G F C G F C G F C G F
Oh God I could do better than that
[Verse 2]
C F C G F C G F
She's an old time ambassador of sweet talking night walking games
C F C G F C G F
Oh, and she's known in the darkest clubs for pushing ahead of the dames
C F C G F C G F
If she says she can do it she can do it she don't make false claims
C F E
For she's a queen and such are queens that your laughter is sucked in their brains
F C
Now she's leading him on and she'll lay him right down
F E
Yeah she's leading him on and she'll lay him right down
F C
But it could have been me yes it could have been me
E A
Why did'nt I say why did'nt I say, No, no, no
[Chorus 2]
C F C G F C G F
So I lay down a while and I gaze at my hotel wall
C F C G F C G F
Oh the cot is so cold it don't feel like no bed at all
C F C G F C G F
Yeah, I lay down a while and look at my hotel wall
C F E
And he's down on the street so I throw both his bags down the hall
F C
And I'm phoning a cab cause my stomach feels small
F E
There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all
F C
It could have been and yes it could have been me
E A
Why did'nt I say why did'nt I say, No, no, no
[Chorus 3]
[Outro]
C G F C G F C G F C G F C
11. THE BEWLAY BROTHERS
[Intro]
D Em A
D Em A...With lead guitar
[Verse 1]
D
And so the story goes they wore the clothes
Em A
They said the things to make it seem improbable
D Em A
The whale of a lie like they hope it was
D
And the good men tomorrow had their feet in the wallow
Em
And their heads of brawn were nicer shorn
A D
And how they bought their positions of saccharin and trust
Em A D
And the world was asleep to our latent fuss
Em A
Sighing the swirl through the streets like the crust of the sun
D
The Bewlay Brothers
A G
In our wings that bark flashing teeth of brass
F#
Standing tall in the dark
F#sus4 Asus2
Oh and we were gone
G Em
Hanging out with your dwarf men we were so turned on
C
By your lack of conclusions
[Beak]
D Em A
[Verse 2]
D Em
Well, I was stone and he was wax so he could scream and still relax unbelievable
A D Em A
And we frightened the small children away
D
And our talk was old and dust would flow through our veins and lo it was midnight
Em A D
Back o' the kitchen door like the grim face on the cathedral floor
Em A D
And the solid book we wrote cannot be found today
Em A Bm
And it was stalking time for the moonboys the Bewlay Brothers
A G
With our backs on the arch in the Devil may be here
F#
But he can't sing about that
F#sus4 Asus2
Oh and we were gone
Gmaj7 Em C
Real cool traders we were so turned on you thought we were fakers
[Break 2]
D Em A
[Verse 3]
D
And now that dress is hung the ticket pawned the factor Max that proved the fact
Em A D Em A
Is melted down and woven on the edging of my pillow
D
Now my brother lays upon the rocks he could be dead he could be not
Em A D
He could be you he's chameleon, comedian, corinthian and caricature
Em A D
Shooting up pie in the sky the Bewlay Brothers
Em A Bm
In the feeble and the bad the Bewlay Brothers
A G
In the blessed and cold in the crutch hungry dark
F#
Was where we flayed our mark
F#sus4 Asus2
Oh we were gone
Gmaj7 Em C
Kings of oblivion we were so turned on in the mind warp pavillion
[Chorus]
Bm C F Bm
Lay me place and bake me pie I'm starving for me gravy
C F Bm
Leave my shoes and door unlocked I might just slip away, hey
F Bm
Just for the day, hey, hey, please come away, hey
F Bm
Just for the day, hey, please come away, hey
F Bm
Please come away, just for the day
F Bm
Please come away, please come away
F Bm
Please come away, please come away
F Bm F Bm
Away, away
Hunky Dory is one of the best albums of all time.
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