Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
[Intro]
e|3-------x---
B|3-------x---
G|0-------x---
D|0-------x---
A|2-------x---
E|3-------x---
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[Verse 1]
Ziggy playe
d guitar, j
amming good
C (barred, slide up) C# D
with Weird and Gilly and the Spiders from Mars.
He played it l
eft hand, but
made it too fa
r
became the spe
cial man, then
we were Ziggy
's band.
[Verse 2]
Ziggy reall
y sang, with s
crewed up eyes
and
C (barred, slide up) C# D
screwed down hair-do like some cat from Ja-pan.
He could lick
'em by smiling
, he could lea
ve 'em to hang
.
He came on so
loaded man, we
ll hung and sn
ow-white tan.
[Chorus]
(
e|------------
B|5-5-5-5-5\--
G|5-5-5-5-5\--
D|7-7-7-7-7\--
A|7-7-7-7-7\--
E|5-5-5-5-5\--
(So where were
(
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the Spiders..
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(
So wher
e were the spi
ders,
while
the fly tried
to break our b
/
alls.
Just t
he beer light
to guide us.
(
And so we bitc
hed about his
fans and shoul
d we crush his
sweet hands.
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
Ziggy playe
d for time, ji
ving us that
C (barred, slide up) C# D
we were voodoo and the kids were just crass.
He was the naz
z with God-giv
en ass.
He took it all
too far but b
oy could he pl
ay guitar.
[Chorus]
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B|5-5-5-5-5\--
G|5-5-5-5-5\--
D|7-7-7-7-7\--
A|7-7-7-7-7\--
E|5-5-5-5-5\--
(
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(
Making love
with his e-go
,
Ziggy
sucked up into
his mind
Like a
leper messiah
.
(
When the kids
had killed a m
an I had to br
eak up the ban
d.
[Instrumental]
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Ziggy pl
ayed... guitar
....
(Fmaj7/E = Very simple, when playing a barred F chord,
simply lift your first finger off the chord
rhythmically, while holding down the 'E shape'
with your other fingers, in an up/down rhythm,
as you hear in the song)