From: Winston Campbell
Hang On To Yourself
(words & music by David Bowie)
This song is featured off of Bowie's -The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
and the Spiders From Mars- album. It is quite simple and fun to play as
are most of Bowie's songs. Before I write down the chords, I must explain
that the chords G5* and B5* are played respectively:
G5*
e|--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-3--|
B|--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-3--| (of course, it would be auspicious to
G|--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-0--| accent the bass notes to give it that
D|--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-0--| cool sound that the song cannot live
A|--x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x-x--| without. -h- stands for hammer-on)
E|--2h3--3-3--2h3--3-3--2h3-3--|
B5*
e|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4-4-| (this time instead of hammering on, it
D|--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4-4-| would be better to slide from the first
A|--1s2--2-2--1s2--2-2--1s2-2-| fret to the second playing B5*)
E|----------------------------|
The song with the chords are:
D C G5 *
D C G5 *
F#m A
Well she is a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the show tonight
Bm F#5 A5 B5 *
Praying to the light machine
F#m A
She wants my honey not my money she's a funky-thigh collector
Bm F#5 A5 B5 *
Laying on electric dreams
C D C D
So come on, come on, we've really got a good thing going
C D C
Well come on, come on, if you think we're gonna make it
A
You better hang on to yourself
D C G5 *
D C G5 *
F#m A
We can't dance, we don't talk much, we just ball and play
Bm F#5 A5 B5 *
But then we move like tigers on vaseline
F#m A
Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
Bm F#5 A5 B5 *
You're the blessed, we're the spiders from Mars
C D C D
So come on, come on, we've really got a good thing going
C D C
Well come on, come on, if you think we're gonna make it
A
You better hang on to yourself
D C G5 *
D C G5 *
Solo Chords: A D A D
C D C D
So come on, come on, we've really got a good thing going
C D C
Well come on, come on, if you think we're gonna make it
A
You better hang on to yourself
(and the song ends...or whatever...)
The Chords are:
E A D G B E
-----------
D x x 0 2 3 2
C x 3 2 0 1 0
F#m 2 4 4 2 2 x
A x 0 2 2 2 x
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2
F#5 2 4 4 x x x
A5 x 0 2 2 x x
(Note that the lyrics for this song is not the one from the Rykodisc
release of -The Man Who Sold The World-, this is the original)
