Shes Got Medals

She's Got Medals by David Bowie 
(From "London Boy" and many other
compilations of his pre-"Space 
Oddity" days)

F  C  G  D  A
      F                C      
She'd walk through the door and 
        G          D             A
she'd set up the drinks on the house
             F            C       
She played a good game of darts, 
       G               D          
and the men slapped her back, 
          A
never took
her out.
    Bm                F#          
She wore a trenchcoat garkey(?), 
   Bm                 E       
her hobnail boots were full of 
A     E
holes.
E     A   E7
She's got medals.

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Her mother called her Mary but she 
changed her name to Tommy, she's a 
one.
She went and joined the army, passed
 the medical, don't ask me how it's 
done.
They sent her to the front line, 
fighting for her country's name
She's got medals.

    B                 G
She got very tired of picking up 
girls,
C                     F
Cleaning her gun, and shaving her 
curls
A#             D#           
Then the enemy dropped a bomb, 
      C                 F  C  G  
survivors there were none!
D  A


F               C                
People say that when the moon is 
G                 D              
full and when the stars have gone
    A
 to bed
        F               C         
You can see a ghost but that's a 
     G                 D           
lie because the naughty woman isn't 
A
dead.
      Bm                     F#   
      Bm                      E   
    A
E
She deserted on the previous 
morning, replaced her uniform with 
dresses silk
and green
E         A      E     E       
A      E     E         A       
E      E     A
E7
Called herself Eileen, came to 
London town, now she's settled down.
  She's
got medals.

F  C  G  D  A     F  C  G  D  A