Life On Mars - David Bowie

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Capo: Fret 3

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These took a long time to transcribe, and I feel they are most suitably played on 
guitar with a capo. I replaced the non-harmonic bass tones with
7th chords to make it easier to play on guitar. It's verse, chorus, bridge, verse, 
chorus, outro. These are some extremely creative chords, so there may be a 
dominant 7th in place of a diminished in some places.

Capo on 3rd fret

[Verse]

          
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
            
For she's live

              
d it ten times

        
 or more
            
She could spit

              
 in the eyes o

        
f fools
        
As they ask he

r to focus on


[Chorus]

       
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?


[Bridge]

                                                
                                               


[Verse 2]

          
It's on Americ

              
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 


[Chorus]

       
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?


[Outro]