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]

         
It's a god-awf

              
ul small affai

 
r
            
To the girl wi

              
th the mousy h

 
air
      
But her mummy 

is yelling "No

"
             
And her daddy 

              
has told her t

   
o go
          
But her friend

              
 is nowhere to

       
 be seen
            
Now she walks 

              
through her su

       
nken dream
          
To the seat wi

              
th the cleares

    
t view
              
And she's hook

              
ed to the silv

         
er screen
          
But the film i

              
s a saddening 

  
bore
          
'Cause she's l

              
ived it ten ti

           
mes or more
          
She could spit

              
 in the eyes o

     
f fools
        
As they ask he

r to focus on


[Refrain]

         
Sailors fighti

ng in the danc

e hall
         
Oh man! Look a

              
t those caveme

    
n go
              
It's the freak

          
iest show
              
Take a look at

        
 the Lawman
 
Beating up the

 wrong guy
         
Oh man! Wonder

              
 if he'll ever

      
 know
              
He's in the be

             
st selling sho

   
w
              
Is there life 

           
on Mars?


[Verse 2]

         
It's on Amerik

             
a's tortured b

/
row
             
That Mickey Mo

             
use has grown 

      
up a cow
          
Now the worker

              
s have struck 

     
for fame
              
'Cause Lennon'

            
s on sale agai

n
          
See the mice i

              
n their millio

     
n hordes
            
From Ibiza to 

              
the Norfolk Br

 
oads
          
Rule Britannia

              
 is out of bou

 
nds
              
To my mother, 

             
my dog, and cl

/
owns
          
But the film i

              
s a saddening 

  
bore
          
'Cause I wrote

              
 it ten times 

      
or more
          
It's about to 

          
be writ again
     
As I ask you t

o focus on


[Refrain]

         
Sailors fighti

ng in the danc

e hall
         
Oh man! Look a

              
t those caveme

    
n go
              
It's the freak

          
iest show
              
Take a look at

        
 the Lawman
 
Beating up the

 wrong guy
         
Oh man! Wonder

              
 if he'll ever

      
 know
              
He's in the be

             
st selling sho

   
w
              
Is there life 

           
on Mars?


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