LIFE ON MARS - David Bowie
Chords:
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.
[Verse]
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?
[Verse]
G G/F# Dm/F
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
E7 Am
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Am/G D/F#
Now the workers have struck for fame
G G/F# Dm/F
Cause Lennon's on sale again
G G/F# Dm/F
See the mice in their million hordes
E7 Am
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Am/G D/F#
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
G G/F# Dm/F
To my mother, my dog and clowns
Bb+ Gm
But the film is a saddening bore
G# Eb
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
G7 Cm
It's about to be writ again
Eb
As I ask you 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?
