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Life On Mars by David Bowie - Guitar Chords

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            David Bowie - Life on Mars?


The recording of "Life on Mars?" included on the David Bowie album "Hunky Dory" is in the key of F. If you
would like to play this transcription in the key of F, use a capo on the 3rd fret.


[Verse 1]

 D     D/C#                  D/C
It's a god-awful small affair
      B7                     Em
To the girl with the mousy hair
      Em/D
But her mummy is yelling "No"
A                              D
And her daddy has told her to go
        D/C#                       D/C
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
        B7                         Em
Now she walks through her sunken dream
      Em/D                      A
To the seat with the clearest view
                                     F/C
And she's hooked to the silver screen
         A/C#                 Dm
But the film is a saddening bore
       F/Eb                            Bb
'Cause she's lived it ten times or more
          D/F#                   Gm
She could spit in the eyes of fools
        Bb/Ab
As they ask her to focus on


[Refrain]

 G        C
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
 Em      Eb+                 D   Dm
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
                     Am   Cm
It's the freakiest show
                      G
Take a look at the Lawman
 C
Beating up the wrong guy
 Em      Eb+                   D   Dm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
                           Am   Cm
He's in the best selling show
                   Em  Em/D#  Em/D  Em/C#
Is there life on Mars?


[Verse 2]

 D      D/C#               D/C
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
             B7                   Em
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
          Em/D                   A
Now the workers have struck for fame
                          D
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
        D/C#                     D/C
See the mice in their million hordes
       B7                    Em
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
      Em/D                   A
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
                           F/C
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
         A/C#                 Dm
But the film is a saddening bore
       F/Eb                       Bb
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
     D/F#               Gm
It's about to be writ again
     Bb/Ab
As I ask you to focus on


[Refrain]

 G        C
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
 Em      Eb+                 D   Dm
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
                     Am   Cm
It's the freakiest show
                      G
Take a look at the Lawman
 C
Beating up the wrong guy
 Em      Eb+                   D   Dm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
                           Am   Cm
He's in the best selling show
                   Em  Em/D#  Em/D  Em/C#
Is there life on Mars?


D:       xx0232
D/C#:    x4x232
D/C:     x3x232
B7:      x21202
Em:      022000
Em/D:    xx0000
A:       x02220
F/C:     x33211
A/C#:    x42220
Dm:      xx0231
F/Eb:    xx1211
Bb:      x13331
D/F#:    200232
Gm:      355333
Bb/Ab:   4x333x
G:       320033
C:       x32010
Eb+:     xx1003
Am:      x02210
Cm:      x35543
Em/D#:   xx1000
Em/C#:   x4x000
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