ME Chords Songs

David Bowie

1.	Absolute Beginners
2.	Aladdin Sane
3.	All The Young Dudes
4.	Andy Warhol
5.	Ashes To Ashes
6.	Changes
7.	Drive In Saturday
8.	Five Years
9.	Five Years.2
10.	Heroes
11.	Lady Grinning Soul
12.	Lady Stardust
13.	Moonage Daydream
14.	My Death
15.	Panic In Detroit
16.	Queen Bitch
17.	Rock N Roll Suicide
18.	Soul Love
19.	Space Oddity
20.	Starman
21.	Suffragette City
22.	Young Americans
23.	Ziggy Stardust

Absolute Beginners

David Bowie

D	Bm	C#m	Gdim	F#7
I've nothing much to	offer,	there's nothing much to	take

G	D	C	Bm	Em	A
I'm an absolute be	ginner,	but I'm absolutely	sane

D	Bm	C#m	Gdim	F#7
As long as we're to	gether,	the rest may go to	hell

G	D	C	Bm
I absolutely	love you,	but we're absolute be	ginners

G	D	F#	A
With eyes completely	open,	but nervous all the	same

Chorus

Em	A	D	G
If	our	love song could fly over	mountain

	Bm	F#
Could laugh at the	ocean, just like the f	ilms

Em	A	D	G
There's	no	reason to feel all the	hard times

	Bm	A
To lay down the	hard lines, it's absolutely	true

D	Bm	C#m	Gdim	F#7
Nothing much could	happen,	nothing we can't	shake

G	D	C	Bm	Em
Though we're absolute be	ginners,	with nothing much at	stake

	A

D	Bm	C#m	Gdim
As long as you're still	smiling,	there's nothing more I	need

	F#7

G	D	C	Bm
I absolutely	love you,	but we're absolute be	ginners

G	D	F#	A
But if my love is	your love,	we're certain to suc	ceed

chorus

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Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

	Bm	A	C	Bm	A
Intro:	,	,	,	,

Watching him dash away

Swinging an old boquet - dead roses

Sake and strange divine

B5	A
Uh-hu-hu-uh-hu-uh, you'll make it

Passionate bright young things

Takes him away to war - don't fake it

Sadden glissando strings

Uh-hu-hu-uh-hu-uh, you'll make it

Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm	F
Whoo	o..	.... will	love Aladdin	Sane

A	G	A	F
Battle cries and	champagne	just in time for	sunrise

Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm	F	A
Whoo	o..	.... will	love Aladdin	Sane

Motor sensational

Paris or maybe hell - I'm waiting

Clutches of sad remains

Waits for Aladdin Sane - you'll make it

Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm	F
Whoo	o..	.... will	love Aladdin	Sane

A	G	A	F
Millions weep a	fountain,	just in case of	sunrise

Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm
Whoo	o..	.... will	love Aladdin	Sane

F	A
Will love Aladdin	Sane

Break: the chords for that incredible piano break is A to G ad infinitum

Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm	F
Whoo	o..	.... will	love Aladdin	Sane

A	G	A	F
Millions weep a	fountain,	just in case of	sunrise

Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm	F	Gm
Whoo	o..	.... will	love Aladdin	Sane

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All the Young Dudes

David Bowie

A	D	A/C#
Well, Billy	rapped all night about his su	icide

	Bm	D/A
How he'd	kick it in the head when he was	twenty five,

F#m	A
speed ive, don't wanna stay alive	when your twenty five.

	D	A/C#
And	Wendy's stealing clothes from	unlocked cars, and

Bm	D	F#m
Freddies got spots from	rippin' off the stars from his	face

	A
(funky little	boat race)

	Em	F#7	Bm
The	television man is crazy saying were	juvenile deliquent	wrecks

	G	D	Asus4	A
Oh	man I need TV	when I got	T.Rex -

	A
Oh broth	er you guessed, I'm a dude dad.

Chorus

D	A/C#	Bm7
Ah	all the young dudes

D/A	Am
carry the news

G	F
boogaloo dudes

C/E	Bm	C	A/C#	D
carry the news

A/C#	Bm7
All the young dudes

D/A	Am
carry the news

G	F
boogaloo dudes

C/E	Bm	C	A/C#
carry the news

Lucy looking sweet 'cos he dresses like a queen,

but he can kick like mule it's a real mean team,

but we can love - oh yes we can love.

And my brothers back at home with his Beatles and his Stones,

we never got it off on all that revolution stuff

what a drag, - too many snags.

Now I drunk a lot of wine and I'm feeling fine -

got to race some cat to bed - oh is there concrete all around

or is it it my head - Yeah I'm a dude dad.

repeat chorus

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Andy Warhol

David Bowie

{sot:}

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{eot:}

Am	F
Like to take a cement fix, be a standing cine	ma,

	Dm	F	Dm	Am
Dress my friends up	just for show,	see them as they	really	are

Am	F
Put a peephole in my brain, two new pence to have a	go,

	Dm	F	Dm	Am
Like to be a	gallery, put you	all ins	ide my	show,

Chorus

G	C	Dm	Am	Dm	Am	C	G
Andy	Warhol,	looks a	scream,	hang him	on my	wa-a-	a-all

G	C	Dm	Am	Dm	Am	C	G	D
Andy	Warhol,	silver s	creen, can't	tell them a	part at	a-a-	a-a-	all

Am	F
Andy walking, Andy tired, Andy take a little	snooze,

	Dm	F	Dm	Am
Tie him up when he	fast asleep,	send him on a	pleasure	cruise

Am	F
When he wake up, on the beach, be sure to think of me and	you.

	Dm	F	Dm	Am
To think about paint and to	think about glue, what a	jolly boring	thing to	do.

Chorus twice

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Ashes to Ashes

David Bowie

Am	G	Dm	Am
-------	-------	-------	---------

G	Em
Do you remember a guy that's been In such an early s	ong

C	D
I've heard a rumor from ground control Oh no don't say it'	s true

F	C	G/B
They got a message from the action man I'm happy hop	e you're happy	too

F	G	E/G#
I've loved all I've needed love Sordi	d det	ails following

A	E
The shrieking of nothing is killing me Just pictures o	f Jap girls in synthesis

G	D	C	E
And I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair But the plane	t is	glowing

F	G	C	A
Ashes to Ashes funk to	funky We know major Tom'	s a junky

F	G	Am	G	Dm
Strung our in heaven's high Hitti	ng an all	time low

G	Em
Time and again I tell myself I'll	stay clean tonight

C	D
But the little green wheels are following me Oh no not aga	in

F	C	G/B
I'm stuck with a valuable friend I'm hap	py hope you're	happy too

	G	E/G#	A
One flash of light but no s	moking pistol I've nev	er do	ne good things

E	G
I've never done bad things I've n	ever done anything out of the blue

F	C
I want an axe to break the ice I want	to come down right now

F	G	C	Am
Ashes to Ashes funk to	funky We know major	Tom's a junky

F	G	Am
Strung our in heaven's high Hitt	ing an	all time low

Am	G	Dm	Am
My m	ama	sai	d to get things done You'd better not mess with major Tom

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Changes

David Bowie

{columns:2}

C	Em
I Still dont know what i was	waiting for

	F	G
And my	time was running	wild,

	F
A million	dead-end streets.

	C	Em
And	every time i thought i'd	got it made

	F	G13
It seems the	taste was not so sweet,

	C	Dm7	Em7	Ebm7
So i	turned my	self to	face me

	Dm7	G7
But	I've never caught a glimpse

	C	Dm7	Em7	Ebm7
Of how the	others must	see the faker

	Dm7	G7
I'm much too	fast to take that	test

	F	C	Em	Am
Ch-ch-c	h-changes,	turn and	face the	strange.

	C	F	Am	D
Ch-ch-	ch-changes,	you	wanna be a richer man,

G7	F	C	Em	Am	C	F
Ch-ch-ch-	changes,	turn and	face the	strange.

	Am	D
It's	gonna be a different	man.

Am	G	F	Am	G	G11	C
Time	may [Bb(add9)]change	me -- but	i	cant	trace	time

C	Em
I watch the ripples change t	heir size

	F	G
But ne	ver leave the	stream

	F
Of warm im	permanence.

{column_break}

	C	Em
And	so the days flow	thru my eyes

	F	G13
But the days	still seem the same.

	C	Dm7	Em7	Ebm7
And	this chil	dren you	spit on

	Dm7	G7
As	they try to change their	worlds,

	C	Dm7	Em7	Ebm7
Are im	mune to your con	sultations.

	Dm7	G7
Theyr'e quite	aware of what they're going	thru.

	F	C	Em	Am
Ch-ch-c	h-changes,	turn and	face the	strange.

	C	F	Am	D
Ch-ch-	ch-changes,	don't	tell them to grow up and	out of it.

G7	F	C	Em	Am	C	F
Ch-ch-ch-	changes,	turn and	face the	strange.

	Am	D
Ch-ch	-ch-changes, there's	your shame,

	Am	D
you'v	e left us up yo our n	eck in it.

Am	G	F	Am	G	G11	C
Time	may [Bb(add9)]change	me -- but	you	cant	trace	time

	C	Dm7	Em7	Ebm7
Strang	e fascination fa	scinating me.

	Dm7	G7
Oh changes are	taking the place I'm going	thru.

	F	C	Em	Am
Ch-ch-c	h-changes,	turn and	face the	strange.

	C	F	Am	D
Ch-ch-	ch-changes,	Oh loo	k out you Rock 'n rollers

	F	C	Em	Am
Ch-ch-c	h-changes,	turn and	face the	strange.

	Am	D
Ch-ch	-ch-changes, pretty s	oon now you're gonna get a little older.

Am	G	F	Am	G	G11	C
Time	may [Bb(add9)]change me,	But i can'	t tra	ce ti	me.

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Drive-In Saturday

David Bowie

E	A	F#m
Let me	put my arms around your head,	gee it's hot let's go to bed

Don't forget to turn on the light, don't laugh babe it'll be alright

A	F#m
Pour me out another please I'll	ring and see if your friends are home

E6	E
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome can	lend us a book

	D	Amaj7
We can read up alone and	try to get it on like once be	fore

	D	A	F#m	B
When	people stared in Jaggers eyes and	scored like the	video films we	saw

Chorus

	C	D	G	G7/F	E7	Am	Am/G
His	name was	always	Buddy and he	shrug and	ask to	stay

	D/F#	G	C	G/B	D
And she'd	sigh like Twig the	wonder kid and	turn her	face a	way

	C	D	G	G7	E7	Am	Am/G
She's un	certain	if she	likes him though she	knows she	really	loves him

	D	G	C	C/B	Am	D/F#	D/E
It's a	crash course for the	ravers, it's a	dri	ve-	in Satur	day

A	F#m
Jung the foreman prayed at work	neither hands nor limbs would burst

	E6
It's	hard enough to keep formation with the fall out saturation

A	F#m
Cursing at the Astronette that	stands in still by his cabinet

	E6	E
His	crashing out with sylvian the bureau supply for	agreeing men

	D	Amaj7
With	snorting head he gives us to the	shore

	D	A	F#m	B
Which	once it raised a sea that raged no	more like the	video films we	saw

Chorus

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Five Years

David Bowie

G	Em
Pushing through the market square,	so many mothers sighing

A	C
News had just come over, we had	five years left to cry in

G	Em
News guy wept and told us,	earth was really dying

A	C
Cried so much his face was wet, then I	knew he was not lying

	G
I heard	telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

	Em
I saw	boys, toys, electric irons and TV's

	A
My	brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

	C
I had to	cram so many things to store everything in there

	Am	C	Am
And all the fat-skinny	people,	and all the tall-short	people

C	G	C	D
And all the nobody	people,	and all the somebody	people

	C
I never thought I'd need so many	people

G	Em
A girl my age went off her head,	hit some tiny children

A	C
If the black hadn't a pulled her off, I	think she would have killed them

G	Em
A soldier with a broken arm,	fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

A	C
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a	queer threw up at the sight of that

G	Em
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor,	drinking milk shakes cold and long

A	C
Smiling and waving and looking so fine,	don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor

	Em
And I	thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

	A
Your	face, your race, the way that you talk

	C
I	kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

	G	Em
We got	five years, stuck on my eyes -	Five years, what a suprise

	A	C
We got	five years, my brain hurts alot -	Five years, that's all we got

	G
We got	five years...

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Five years

David Bowie

3/4

G	F#m
pushing thru' the market square

Em	C
so	many mother sighing

News had just come over

	C	G	Am
We had	five years left ti cry in

News guy wept and told us

earth eas really dying

Cried so much, his face was wet

Then i knew he was not lying.

	G	Am	G
	I	heard	telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

	Bm	Em
I	saw	boys, toys, electric irons and T.V's

	A
My	brain hurt like a ware house, it had no room to spare

	C
I had to	cram so many things to store ev'ry thing in there

	Am
And all the fat	skinny people

C	Am
And all the tall short	people

C	G	Am	G
And all the no	bod	y	people

C	G	Am	D7
And all the some	bod	y	people

	Am	C	G	Am
I never thought i'd need so many	people

A girl my age went off her head

Hit some tiny children

If the black had not puled her off

I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm

Fixed his state to the wheels of a Cadilac

A cop Knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

And a queer threw up at at the sight of that

G	F#m
I think i saw you in an ice cream parlour

Drinking milkshakes cold and long

smiling and waving and looking so fine

Don't think you knew you were in this song

	G	Am	G
And	it	was	cold, and it rained, so i felt like an actor

	F#m	Em
	And i	thoought of Ma, and i wanted to get back there

	A
Your	face, Your race, the way that you talk

	C	G	Am
I	kiss you, you're beautifull, I want you to walk. we	got

Repeat once

G	Bm
five years stuck on my eyes

five years what a surprise we got

five years my brain hurts a lot

five years that's all we got we've got

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Heroes

David Bowie

Intro: D G

D	G
I, I will be	king

	D	G
And you,	you will be q	ueen

	C	D
Though	nothing will drive them	away

	C	D
We can	beat them just for one	day

	C	G	D
We can be	Heroes	just for one	day

D	G
And you, you can be	mean

	D	G
And I	, I'll drink all th	e time

	D	G
'Cause we're	lovers and that is a f	act

	D	G
Yes we're	lovers and that is th	at

	C	D
Though	nothing will keep us to	gether

	C	D
We could steal	time just for one	day

	C	G	D
We can be	Heroes	for ever and	ever

What do you say?

D	G
I, I wish you could	swim

	D	G
Like the	dolphins, like dolphins can	swim

	C	D
Though	nothing will keep us toge	ther

	C	D
We can	beat them for ever and	ever

	C	G	D
Oh we can be	Heroes	just for one	day

REPEAT 1st verse (sing an octave higher, sound desperate)

D	G
I, I can rem	ember

D	G
Standing by the	wall

	D	G
And the g	uards shot above ou	r heads

	D	G
And we k	issed as though nothing could	fall

	C	D
And the	Seine was on the other	side

	C	D
Oh we can	beat them forever and ev	er

	C	G	D
Then we can be	Heroes	just for one day

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LADY GRINNING SOUL

David Bowie

	F#m	G	A	G	A	F#m
The intro piano plays:

	F#m
She'll come,	she'll go

	G
She'll lay	belief on you

	A
Skin sweet with m	usky oil

	G#m	B
The	lady from another grinning	soul

	F#m
Cologne	she'll wear

	G
Silver	and Americard

	A
She'll drive	a beetle car

G#m	B
And beat you down at cool	Canasta

	Ebm	B
And when the	clothes are strew	n

	Bb	B
Don't be a	fraid of the	room

	C#
Touch the fullness of her	breast

	E
Feel the love of	her caress

	G#m	F#m
She will be your livi	ng end

F#m	G	A	G#m	B

She'll come she'll go

She'll lay belief on you

But she won't stake her life on you

How can life become point of view

And when the clothes are strewn

Don't be afraid of the room

Touch the fullness of her breast

Feel the love of her caress

She will be your living end

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Lady Stardust

David Bowie

	A	A	E	E	A	A	E	E

A	C#	F#m	D
People	stared at the	makeup on his	face

A	F#m	E	C#
Laughed at his	long black hair,	his animal	grace

F#m	D
The boy in the	bright blue jeans

A	C#
Jumped onto the	stage

	A	E
And	lady stardust	sang his songs

	D	E
Of	darkness and dis	grace

	A	E	D	E
And he was	al	right the	band was alto	gether

	A	E	D	E
Yes he was	al	right the	song went on for	ever:

	Em	Em7
And he was	awful	nice

Em6	Em5
Really quite out of	sight

	A	E	D
And he sang	all	night long

A	C#	F#m
Femme fa	tales emerged from the	shadows

	D
To watch this	creature fair

A	F#m
Boys stood up	on their chairs

	E	C#
To	make their point of	view

F#m	D	A	C#
I smiled	sadly for a	love I could not o	bey

	A	E
And	lady stardust	sang his songs

	D	E
Of	darkness and dis	may

	A	E	D	E
And he was	al	right the	band was alto	gether

	A	E	D	E
Yes he was	al	right the	song went on for	ever

	Em	Em7
And he was	awful	nice

Em6	Em5
Really quite para	dise

	A	E	D
And he sang	all	night long

A	F#m	E
Oh how I	sighed when they	asked if I knew his name

	A	E	D	E
And he was	al	right the	band was alto	gether

	A	E	D	E
Yes he was	al	right the	song went on for	ever

	Em	Em7
And he was	awful	nice

Em6	Em5
Really quite para	dise

	A	E	D
And he sang	all	night long

	A	A	E	E	A	A	E	E	A

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Moonage Daydream

David Bowie

(D 5th fret, F# 9th fret)

[N.C.]I'm an alligator,

F#	B
[N.C.]I'm a mama-papa comin' for	you

A	E	G
I'm a space invader,	I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for	you

	D	F#
Keep your mouth shut,	you're sqauwkin' like a pink monkey	bird

(E 1st fret)

	B	A	E
and I'm busting up my brains for the	words

chorus

Chorus

	G	D	E
	Keep your '	lectric eye on	me babe

	G	D	E
	Put your	ray gun to my	head

	G	D	E
	Press your	space face close to	mine, love

(D 5th, E 7th fret)

	D	E
	Freak out in a moonage daydream	oh! yeah!

Don't fake it baby, lay the real thing on me

The church of man, love, is such a holy place to be

Make me baby, make me know you really care

Make me jump into the air

(repeat chorus)

BREAK

{sot}

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(hold the last D over the beginning of the chorus)

{eot}

(repeat chorus 2x)

Outro

D	A	G	F
Freak out!	Far out!

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My death, Jacques Brel

as perfromed by Bowie

Em	Em7	Em6
		[Emb6]

Em	Em7	Em6
My	death waits like

	Em	Em7
[Emb6]an old	drouin (?)

	Em6
So	confident [Emb6]

	Em
I'll go his	way

Em7	Em6
Whistle to	him

	D	Dsus4	D
[Emb6]and the	passing time

G	A
My death waits	like

G	C
a Bible	truth

	F	Am	Am/G
at the	funeral of my	youth

	F
oh we	drank for that

	G
and the	passing time

G#m	F#
My death waits like

	G#m
a witched	night

	F#	G#m
as	surely as our love is	bright

	F#	B
let's not	think about the	passing time

Em	D	C
But whatever lies	behind the door

	B
there is nothing much to	do

Em	D	C	C/B
Angel or Devil	I don't care

	Am	Am/G	B	Bb	C#	Gm
For in front	of that	door there is you

My death waits like a beggar blind

who sees the world through an unled mind

	F
throw him a dime for the	passing time

Bb	C#	Bb
My death waits	there between your	thighs

	G#	Cm
Your cold	fingers will close my	eyes

	G#
Let's	think of that

	Bb
And the	passing time

Bm	A
My death waits

	Bm
to allow my	friend

	A
a	few good times

	Bm
before it	ends

	A
so let's	drink to that

	F#
and the	passing time

G	F	Eb
but whatever lies	behind the door

	D	G
there is nothing much to	do

	F	Eb
Angel or Devil	I don't care

for in front of that door

	D
there is	you

My death waits there among the leaves

in magicians mysterious sleeves

	F
rabbits and dogs and the	passing time

Bb	C#
My death waits	there

	Bb
among the	flowers

	G#	C#m
where the	blackest shadow	cowers

	G#	Bb
Let's pick	lilacs for the	passing time

Bm	A
My death waits	there

	Bm
in a double	bed

	A
sails	of oblivion

	Bm
at my	head

	A
so pull up your	seats against

	F#
the	passing time

Gm	F	Eb
But whatever lies	behind the door

	D	Gm
there is nothing	much to do

	F
Angel or Devil

	Eb
I don't care

for in front of that door....... there is

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Panic in Detroit

David Bowie

intro:

Bm	G	A
\\\	\\	\\\ \\

G	A	G	A
The only sur	vivor	of the National	People's Gang.

D	E	D	C	D	E	D	C	D
Panic in	De	tr	oi	t, I	asked	for	an auto	graph

	E	D	C	D	D	E	D	C	E
He	want	ed	to	stay home,	I wi	sh	some	one would	phone.

verse 2

He laughed at accidental sirens that broke the evening gloom.

The police had warned of repercussions.

They followed none too soon.

A trickle of strangers were all that were left alive.

chorus

Panic in Detroit, I asked for an autograph

He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone.

Panic in Detroit.

D	C
Putting on some clothes I made my	way to school

B	C	G
and I found my teacher	crouching in his	overalls.

D	C
I screamed and ran to smash my favorite	slot machine

B	C	D
and jumped the silent	cars that slept at	traffic lights.

{npp}

Bm G A

----- ----- -----

verse 3

Having scored a million dollars, made a run back home.

Found him slumped across a table. A gun and me alone.

I ran to the window. Looked for a plane or two.

Panic in Detroit. He'd left me an autograph.

"Let me collect dust." I wish someone would phone.

Panic in Detroit.

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Queen Bitch

David Bowie

C	F	C	G	F	C	G
I'm up on the eleventh floor and I'm	watching the cruisers	below

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
He's	down on the street and he's	trying hard to pull sister	Flo

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
Oh my	hearts in the basement, my	weekend's at an all time	low

F	C	F	C
Cos she's	hopin to score so I	can't see her letting him	os she's go

	E	Am
Walk out of her	heart, walk out of her	mind, no not her

Chorus

	B	D	B	D
She's so	swishy in her satin and	tat, in her	frockcoat and bipperty boppirty	hat

Oh God

I could do better than

that

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
She's an	old time ambassador of	sweet talking, night walking	games

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
And she's	known in the darkest clubs for	pushing ahead of the	dames

	F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
If	she say	she can do it, then she can	do it, she don't make false	claim	s

	F	C	F
For	she's a	queen and such are queens that your	laughter is sucked in their brains

E	F
But now she's leading him	on and she'll lay him right down

C	F
Now she's leading him	on and she'll lay him right down

E	F	C
But it could have been me	yes it could have been	me

	E	A
Why didn't I	say why didn't I	say, no no no

Chorus

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
So I	lay down awhile and I	gaze at my hotel	wall

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
Oh the	cot is so cold, it	don't feel like no bed at	all

F	C	F	C	G	F	C	G
Yeah I	lay down awhile	look at my hotel	wall

F	C	F	E
But he's	down on the street, so I throw	both his bags down the	hall,

	F	C
And I'm phoning a cab	'cos my stomach feels	small

	F	E
There's a taste in my	mouth and it's no taste at	all

	F	C
It could have been	me, yes it could have been	me

	E	A
Why didn't I	say, why didn't I	say, no no no

Chorus

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Rock 'n Roll Suicide

David Bowie

	C	E7
Time takes a	cigarette, puts it in your	mouth

	F	G	Am
You pull on your	finger, then another	finger, then the ci	garette

G	F	G	Am
The wall to wall is	calling it	lingers, but still you for	get

G	F	C
Oh oh oh,	you're a rock 'n roll suicide

G	C	E7
You're too old to	lose it, you're too young to	choose it

	F	G	Am
And the	clock waits so	patiently on your	song

G	F	G	Am
You walk past a	cafe, but you don't	eat when you've lived too	long

G	F	C
Oh, no no no,	you're a rock 'n roll suicide

G	C	E7
Chev brakes are	snarling as you stumble a	cross the road

	F	G	Am
But the	day breaks in	stead so you hurry	home

G	F	G	E7	Am
Don't let the	sun blast your sha	dow, don't let the	milk float blind your	mind

	F	D9	G7
So	natural re	ligiously unkind

	C	A
Oh no love you're not a	lone, you're watching yourself but you're	too unfair

	C	A
You got your	head all tangled but but if I could only	make you care

	C#m	G#m	B	D#m
Oh	no love you're not a	lone no matter	what or who you've	been

	Bbm	Db	B	D#m
No matter	when or where you've	seen all the	knives that lacerate your	brain

	Bbm	Db	Bb
I've had my	share, now I'll help you with the	pain, you're not alone

Db	Bb	Db
Just turn on me you're	not alone,	let's turn on me and be

Bb	Db	Bb	Db
You're not alone,	gimme your hands	you're wonderful,	gimme your hands

Bb	Db	Bb	Db
You're not alone,	gimme your hands	you're wonderful,	gimme your hands

Bb	Fm	Cm	Gb	Db

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Soul Love

David Bowie

G	Em	C
Stone love, she kneels before the grave, a	brave son, who gave his life to save the	slogan

	G	Bm	Am	D
That hovers between the headstone and her	eyes	for they penetrate	her	grieving

G	Em
New love, a boy and girl are talking,	new words, that only they can share in

C	G	Bm	Am	D
New words, a love so strong it tears their hearts to	sleep	through the fleeting	hours of mor	ning

Chorus

	Am	Em
	Love is careless in its choosing,	sweeping over cross a baby

	F	C	D
	Love descends on	those defenseless,	idiot love will spark the fusion

	C	D	Dm	C
	Inspirations	have I none, just to	touch the flaming	dove

	Cm	G	D
	All I have is my	love of love, and	love is not loving

A	F#m
Soul love, the priest that tastes the word and	told of love, and how my God on high is

D	A	C#m	Bm	E
All love, though reaching up my lonliness evol	ves	by the blindness that	surrounds him

Chorus

	Bm	F#m
	Love is careless in its choosing,	sweeping over cross a baby

	G	D	E
	Love descends on	those defenseless,	idiot love will spark the fusion

	D	E	Em	D
	Inspirations	have I none, just to	touch the flaming	dove

	Dm	A	E
	All I have is my	love of love, and	love is not loving

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Space Oddity

David Bowie

	C	Em	C	Em
	Ground control to Major	Tom,	ground control to Major	Tom:

Am	Am7/G	D7
Take your	protein pills and	put your helmet on

C	Em	C	Em
Ground control to Major	Tom:	commencing countdown engine's	on

Am	Am7/G	D7
Check ig	nition and may	God's love be with you

C	E7	F
This is ground control to Major	Tom, you've really made the	grade!

	Fm	C/E	F
And the	papers want to	know whose shirts you	wear, now it's

Fm	C/E	F
time to leave the	capsule if you	dare

C	E7	F
This is Major Tom to ground con	trol, I'm stepping through the	door

	Fm	C/E	F	Fm
And I'm	floating in the	most peculiar	way and the	stars look

	C/E	F
very	difeerent to	day

	Fmaj7	Em7	Fmaj7	Em7
For	here am I	sitting in a tin can,	far above the	world

Bbmaj7	Am	G	F	C
Planet Earth is	blue and there's	nothing I can	do

F	G	A	C	F	G

Fmaj7	Em7	A	C	D

C	E7	F
Though I'm passed one hundred thousand	miles, I'm feeling very	still

	Fm	C/E	F	Fm
And I	think my spaceship	knows which way to	go, tell my	wife I

	C/E	F
love her	very much she	knows

G	E7	Am
Ground control to	Major Tom: Your	circuit's dead, there's

Am7/G

something wong.

	D7	C/G	G
Can you	hear me Major Tom? Can you	hear me Major Tom? Can you	hear

me Major Tom? Can you ...

Fmaj7	Em7	Fmaj7	Em7
Here am I	floating round my tin can,	far above the	moon

Bbmaj7	Am	G	F
Planet Earth is	blue and there's	nothing I can	do

C	F	G	A	C	F

G	A

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STARMAN

David Bowie

Bb	F	Bb	F

Gm	F
Didn't know what time is was, and the lights were low - ow -	ow -

	C
I leaned back on my radio - o -	o -

	C7	F	Ab	Bb
Some cat was laying down some	rock'n'roll, "lotta soul", he s	aid.

Gm	F
Then the loud sound did seem to fa - a - a	de,

	C
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of pha - a - a	se,

	C7	A	G
That weren't no D.J., that was	hazy cosmic jive.

Chorus

	F	Dm	Am	C
There's a s	tarman w	aiting in the sky, he'd l	ike to come and m	eet us,

	C7	F	Dm
but he th	inks he'd blow our minds, There's a s	tarman w	aiting in the sky,

	Am	C	C7
he's t	old us not to b	low it, 'cause he k	nows it's all worth-while,

	Bb	Bbm	F	D7
he told me,	let the c	hildren lose it,	let the c	hildren use it,

Gm	C7
let all the c	hildren boogie.

Bb	F	C	F	Bb	F	C

I had to phone someone, so I picked on you - ou - ou -

Hey, that's far out, so you heard tim too - oo - oo -

Switch on the T.V., we may pick him on channel two.

Look out your window, I can see his ligh - igh - ight,

if we can sparkle he may land tonigh - igh - ight,

Don't tell your papa or he'll get us locked up in fright.

Repeat chorus twice

Fade out repeating Bb F C F while singing: la la- la la ......

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Suffragettee City

David Bowie

A	F	G
Hey Man	Leave me a-lone you	know

A	F	G
Hey Man Oh Henry G	et off the p	hone I gotta

Hey Man, I gotta

B	D
Straighten my face This	mellow thighed chick just put my

F	G
Spine out of	place

Hey Man, my school days insane

Hey Man, my works down the drain

Hey Man, Well She's a Total Blam Blam,

She said she had to squeeze it but she And then she

Chorus

G	A	D
Oh don't	lean on me man cuz you	can't afford the ticket

F	C	G
I'm back on S	uffragette C	ity

	A	D
Well don't	lean on me man cuz you	ain't got time to check it

F	C	G
You know my	Suffragette C	ity

	A	G
Its outa	sight she's all	right

A	F	G
Hey Man ah Henry,	don't be unkind, g	o Away

A	F	G
Hey Man ah i can't	take you thi	s time, no way

Hey Man, ah droogie

B	D
Don't crash here Theres	only room for one

F	G
and here she	comes here she come

Chorus

Wham Bam, Thank you Ma'am!

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Young Americans

David Bowie

They pulled in just behind the fridge

He laid her down - he frowns

Gee my life's a funny thing

Am I still too young

He kissed then and there

She took his ring took his babies

It him minutes took her nowhere

Heaven knows she'd've taken anything

Em	F#m
All nig	ht - she wants the young American

Em	F#m
It's all rig	ht - but she wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture window

She finds the slinky vagabond

He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang

Heaven forbid she'll taken anything

But the freak and his type - all for nothing

He misses a step and cuts his hand

Showing nothing he swoops like a song

She cries where have all papa's heroes gone

All night - she wants the young American

It's all right - but she wants the young American

All the way from Washington

Her breadwinner begs of the bathroom floor

We live for just these twenty years

Do we have to die for fifty more

All night - she wants the young American

It's all right - but she wants the young American

Do you remember president Nixon

Do you remember all the bills you have to pay

or even yesterday .................................

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ZIGGY STARDUST

David Bowie

Intro x 4 : G - (D - Dsus4) x 3 - C/G - Cmaj7/G - Am7

G	Bm/F#	C/G
Ziggy played guitar,	jamming good with Wierd and	Gilly,

	D	G	Em
And the spiders from M	ars. He played it left h	and, but made it to	far,

	A	C/G
Became the sp	ecial man, then we were Z	iggy's band.

G	Bm/F#	C/G
Ziggy really sang, s	crewed up eyes and screwed down	hairdo

	D	G
Like som cat from J	apan, he could lick'em by s	miling

	Em
He could leave'em to h	ang

	A	C/G
Came on so lo	aded man, well hung and s	now-white tan.

Use barre-chords in chorus, play F chord alternating F and F/E

Am	G	F	Am	G	F
So w	here were the s	piders w	hile the f	ly tried to b	reak our balls

Am	G	F
Just the b	eer light to g	uide us,

	D	E
So we b	itched about his fans and should we c	rush his sweet hands?

Intro x 2

G	Bm/F#	C/G
Ziggy played for time, j	iving us that we were v	oodoo

	D	G
The kids was just c	rass, he was the n	azz

	Em
With God given	ass

	A	C/G
He took it a	ll too far, but boy could he p	lay guitar.

Am	G	F	Am	G	F
Making l	ove with his	ego Z	iggy s	ucked up i	nto his mind

Am	G	F
Like a l	eper me	ssiah

	D	E
When the k	ids had killed the man I had to b	reak up the band.

Intro x 4 (with some "oh yeah" and "uuuhh"...)

C	G
Ziggy played guita	r

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