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: The recording on the David Bowie album "Hunky Dory" is in the key of F. This transcription transposes
the song up to the key of G and therefore cannot be played along with the original recording.

PICKING PATTERN:
For the verse, pick with the following pattern - the bass note and
first and second strings all simultaneously, then the third string.  For
the chorus, strum.


[Verse 1]

         
It's a god-awf

          
ul small affai

            
r to the girl 

              
with the mousy

  
 hair
          
But her mummy 

             
is yelling "No

/           
" and her dadd

              
y has told her

     
 to 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 the

  
y ask her to f

ocus on


[Chorus]

            
Sailors, fight

              
ing in the dan

    
ce hall
          
Oh man! look a

              
t those caveme

           
n go,    it's 

            
a freakest sho

w
            
Take a look at

             
 the Lawman, b

             
eating up the 

       
wrong guy
          
Oh man!  Wonde

              
r if he'll eve

           
r know   he's 

              
in the best se

      
lling show
            
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 again
         
See the mice i

             
n their millio


n hordes
            
From Ibiza to 

              
the Norfolk Br

  
oads
          
Rule Brittania

              
 is out of bou


nds
             
To my mother, 

          
my dog and clo

 
wns
           
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, fight

              
ing in the dan

    
ce hall
          
Oh man! look a

              
t those caveme

           
n go,    it's 

            
a freakest sho

w
            
Take a look at

             
 the Lawman, b

             
eating up the 

       
wrong guy
          
Oh man!  Wonde

              
r if he'll eve

           
r know   he's 

              
in the best se

      
lling show
            
Is there life 

                 
on Mars?