Life On Mars

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]

 G      G/F#            Dm/F     
It's a god-awful small affair to 
     E7                  Am
the girl with the mousy hair
         Am/G              D/F#   
But her mummy is yelling "No" and 
                           G
her daddy has told her to go
          G/F#                  Dm/F
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
        E7                       
now she walks through her sunken 
Am
dream
        Am/G                  D/F#
To the seat with the clearest view
and she's hooked to the silver 
 Bb
screen
          Bb+                Gm
But the film is a saddening bore
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            G#                   Eb
For she's lived it ten times or more
           G7                   Cm
She could spit in the eyes of 
          Eb
fools as they ask her to focus on


[Chorus]

  C         F                   G
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
 Am      Fm                    G  
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, 
Gm                  Dm
   it's a freakest show
Fm                   C      F   
Take a look at the Lawman, 
                 G
beating up the wrong guy
Am       Fm                     G
Oh man!  Wonder if he'll ever 
 Gm                          Dm
know   he's in the best selling show
Fm                Am   C+  Am7  
Is there life on Mars?
D7  F  Gsus4  D



[Verse 2]

 G       G/F#                   Dm/F
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
            E7                     
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a 
  Am
cow
        Am/G                       
Now the workers have struck for 
  D/F#
fame
      G        G/F#              
Cause Lennon's on sale again
Dm/F

 G       G/F#              Dm/F
See the mice in their million hordes
        E7                    Am
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
         Am/G               D/F#
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
      G        G/F#          Dm/F
To my mother, my dog and clowns
        Bb+                     Gm
But the film is a saddening bore
         G#                        
`Cause I wrote it ten times or more
 Eb

      G7                   Cm
It's about to be writ again
     Eb
As I ask you to focus on


[Chorus]

  C         F                   G
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
 Am      Fm                    G  
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, 
Gm                  Dm
   it's a freakest show
Fm                   C      F   
Take a look at the Lawman, 
                 G
beating up the wrong guy
Am       Fm                     G
Oh man!  Wonder if he'll ever 
 Gm                          Dm
know   he's in the best selling show
Fm                Am   C+  Am7  
Is there life on Mars?
D7  F  Gsus4  D