David Bowie – Life On Mars?

Performed by
David Bowie
Release Year
1971
Suggested Capo
Fret 5

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David Bowie – Life On Mars?
Key: F Major BPM: ♩ = 60 Time: 4/4
|F        Am/E             |Adim/Eb      D7                 |
   It's a God-awful small affair, to the girl with the mousy
|Gm            Gm/F            |C/E         C                    |
 hair, but her mummy is yelling no, and her daddy has told her to
|F           Am/E                   |Adim/Eb       D7                      |
 go, but her friend is nowhere to be seen, now she walks through her sunken
|Gm            Gm/F                  |C/E             C                   |
 dream, to the seat with the clearest view, and she's hooked to the silver

|Cm/Eb           Eaug               |Fm              Gbsus2               |
 screen, but the film is a saddening bore, for she's lived it ten times or
|Db              Aaug               |Bbm            Bsus2              |
 more, she could spit in the eyes of fools, as they ask her to focus on

|Bb      Eb                   |Gm           F#aug                |
 Sailors fighting in the dance hall, oh man look at those cavemen
|F   Fm                  |Cm7   Ebm7                |
 go,   it's the freakiest show,   take a look at the
|Bb     Eb                  |Gm          F#aug               |
 Lawman beating up the wrong guy, oh man wonder if he'll ever
|F   Fm                        |Cm7   Ebm7              |
 know, he's in the best selling show,   is there life on

|Gm    F#aug    |Bb/F    Em7b5    |
 Mars?
|F     F#dim7   |Gm      E7/D     |Am    Bb   |24Bbm    |

|44F          Am/E             |Adim/Eb           D7                  |
    It's on America's tortured brow, that Mickey Mouse has grown up a
|Gm           Gm/F                   |C/E          C                     |
 cow, now the workers have struck for fame, 'cause Lennon's on sale again
|F         Am/E                 |Adim/Eb       D7                 |
   See the mice in their million hordes, from Ibiza to the Norfolk
|Gm              Gm/F            |C/E           C                  |
 Broads, rule Britannia is out of bounds, to my mother, my dog, and

|Cm/Eb           Eaug               |Fm              Gbsus2               |
 clowns, but the film is a saddening bore, ‘ca use I wrote it ten times or
|Db          Aaug            |Bbm        Bsus2              |
 more, it's about to be writ again, as I ask you to focus on

|Bb      Eb                   |Gm           F#aug                |
 Sailors fighting in the dance hall, oh man look at those cavemen
|F   Fm                  |Cm7   Ebm7                |
 go,   it's the freakiest show,   take a look at the
|Bb     Eb                  |Gm          F#aug               |
 Lawman beating up the wrong guy, oh man wonder if he'll ever
|F   Fm                        |Cm7   Ebm7              |
 know, he's in the best selling show,   is there life on

|Gm    F#aug    |Bb/F    Em7b5    |
 Mars?
|F     F#dim7   |Gm      Bb/F     |Bb/F     |Eb   Ebm   |
|Bb             |