F       Am/E
 It's a God-awful small affair
A°/Eb    D7
 To the girl with the mousy hair
Gm        Bb/F
 But her mummy is yelling no
C         C7
 And her daddy has told her to go

F       Am/E
 But her friend is nowhere to be seen
A°/Eb    D7
 Now she walks through her sunken dream
Gm        Bb/F
 To the seat with the clearest view
C         C7
 And she's hooked to the silver screen

Ab        Ab+/E
 But the film is a saddening bore
Fm          Ab7
 For she's lived it ten times or more
Db          Db+/A
 She could spit in the eyes of fools
Bbm      Db7
 As they ask her to focus on

Bb       Eb
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm        F#+                   F
 Oh man, look at those cavemen go
Fm                    Cm7
 It's the freakiest show
Ebm7                 Bb
 Take a look at the lawman
Eb
Beating up the wrong guy
Gm        F#+                    F
 Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
Fm                          Cm7
 He's in the best selling show
Ebm7               Gm  F#+  Bb/F  Eb°7
 Is there life on Mars?

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F          Am/E
 It's on America's tortured brow
A°/Eb         D7
 That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Gm        Bb/F
 Now the workers have struck for fame
C        C7
 'Cause Lennon's on sale again

F          Am/E
 See the mice in their million hordes
A°/Eb         D7
 From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Gm        Bb/F
 Rule Britannia is out of bounds
C        C7
 To my mother, my dog, and clowns

Ab        Ab+/E
 But the film is a saddening bore
Fm          Ab7
 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
Db          Db+/A
 It's about to be writ again
Bbm      Db7
 As I ask you to focus on

Bb       Eb
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm        F#+                   F
 Oh man, look at those cavemen go
Fm                    Cm7
 It's the freakiest show
Ebm7                 Bb
 Take a look at the lawman
Eb
Beating up the wrong guy
Gm        F#+                    F
 Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
Fm                          Cm7
 He's in the best selling show
Ebm7               Gm  F#+  Bb/F  Eb°7
 Is there life on Mars?

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