Artist:David Bowie
Song: Oh! You Pretty Things
Album: Hunky Dory


Capo 1


[Verse]

            
Wake up you sl

             
eepy head put 

              
on some clothe

         
s, shake up yo

ur bed
             
Put another lo

             
g on the fire 

             
for me I've ma

              
de some breakf

        
ast and coffee
             
I look out my 

           
window and wha

t do I see 
            
A crack in the

            
 sky and a han

              
d reaching dow

    
n to me
             
All the nightm

             
ares came toda

                                                   
y
              
And it looks a

              
s though they'

   
re here to sta

y


            
What are we co

             
ming to no roo

             
m for me, no f


un for you
             
 I think about

             
 a world to co

             
me where the b

              
ooks were foun

         
d by the Golde

n Ones
             
Written in pai

   
n, written in 

awe
            
 By a puzzled 

            
man who questi

             
oned What we w


ere here for
             
All the strang

                                                               
ers came today
              
And it looks a

              
s though they'

   
re here to sta

y


[Chorus]

           
Oh, you pretty

         
 things  
             
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

           
g your mothers

              
 and fathers i

  
nsane
           
Oh, you pretty

         
 things  
             
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

           
g your mothers

              
 and fathers i

  
nsane
             
Let me make it

             
 plain you got

              
ta make way fo

            
r the Homo Sup

   
erior


[Verse]

             
Look out at yo

            
ur children se

              
e their faces 

   
in golden rays
             
Don't kid your

             
self they belo

             
ng to you they

              
're the start 

       
of the coming 

race
             
The earth is a

             
 bitch we've f

inished our ne

ws
           
Homo Sapiens h

             
ave outgrown t

     
heir use
             
All the strang

             
ers came today
              
And it looks a

              
s though they'

   
re here to sta

y



[Chorus]

           
Oh, you pretty

         
 things  
             
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

           
g your mothers

              
 and fathers i

  
nsane
           
Oh, you pretty

         
 things  
             
Don't you know

              
 you're drivin

           
g your mothers

              
 and fathers i

  
nsane
             
Let me make it

             
 plain you got

              
ta make way fo

            
r the Homo Sup

   
erior