Ashes To Ashes Uke tab by David Bowie

9 Chords used in the song: Am, G, Dm, Em, C, D, F, E, A

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Artist: 
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Year:  1980
Difficulty: 
3.83
(Intermediate)
Key: AmChords
Am chordAm   G chordG      Dm chordDm   Am chordAm
Intro (x2)

G chordG
Do you remember a guy that's been
Em chordEm
In such an early song
C chordC
I've heard a rumour from Ground Control
D chordD
Oh no, don't say it's true

F chordF
They got a message
from the Action Man
C chordC Em chordEm F chordF
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too
I've loved
all I've needed to love
G chordG E chordE
Sordid details following"

A chordA
The shrieking of nothing is killing
E chordE
Just pictures of Jap girls
in synthesis and I
G chordG D chordD
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
F chordF C chordC Em chordEm
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing

[CHORUS]
F chordF G chordG
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
C chordC Am chordAm
We know Major Tom's is a junkie
F chordF G chordG
Strung out in heaven's high
Am chordAm G chordG
Hitting an all-time low

Dm chordDm Am chordAm G chordG
Transition (x4)
Dm chordDm Am chordAm
final transition

G chordG
Time and again I tell myself
Em chordEm
I'll stay clean tonight
C chordC D chordD
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
F chordF
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
C chordC Em chordEm F chordF
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too"
One flash of light
G chordG E chordE
but no smoking pistol

A chordA
I never done good things
E chordE
I never done bad things
G chordG D chordD
I never did anything out of the blue,
F chordF
Want an axe to break the ice
C chordC Em chordEm
Wanna come down right now

[CHORUS]
F chordF G chordG
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
C chordC Am chordAm
We know Major Tom's is a junkie
F chordF G chordG
Strung out in heaven's high
Am chordAm G chordG
Hitting an all-time low

Dm chordDm Am chordAm G chordG

Dm chordDm
My mother said
Am chordAm
to get things done
G chordG
You'd better not mess
Dm chordDm
with Major Tom

repeat...

Uke tab by , 10 Apr 2015

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About this song: Ashes To Ashes

"Ashes to Ashes" is a single by David Bowie, released in 1980. It made #1 in the UK and was the first cut from the Scary Monsters album, also a #1 hit. As well as its musical qualities, it is noted for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet. The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from "Space Oddity", which he referenced once again in 1996 with "Hallo Spaceboy". Bowie has said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was, "wrapping up the seventies really for myself, and that seemed a good enough epitaph for it".

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