Five Years Uke tab by David Bowie

4 Chords used in the song: G, E, Am, C

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G chordG
pushing thru' the market square
E chordE
so many mother sighing
Am chordAm
News had just come over
C chordC G chordG
We had five years left ti cry in

G chordG
News guy wept and told us
E chordE
earth was really dying
Am chordAm
Cried so much, his face was wet
C chordC
Then i knew he was not lying.

G chordG
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
E chordE
I saw boys, toys, electric guns and T.V's
Am chordAm
My brain hurt like a ware house, it had no room to spare
C chordC
I had to cram so many things to store ev'ry thing in there
Am chordAm
And all the fat skinny people
CAm
And all the tall short people
C chordC G chordG
And all the nobody people
C chordC G chordG
And all the somebody people
Am chordAm CG
I never thought i'd need so many people


G chordG
A chordA girl my age went off her head
E chordE
Hit some tiny children
Am chordAm
If the black had not puled her off
C chordC
I think she would have killed them

G chordG
A chordA soldier with a broken arm
E chordE
Fixed his state to the wheels of a Cadilac
Am chordAm
A chordA cop Knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
C chordC
And a queer threw up at at the sight of that

G chordG
I think i saw you in an ice cream parlour
E chordE
Drinking milkshakes cold and long
Am chordAm
smiling and waving and looking so fine
C chordC
Don't think you knew you were in this song

G chordG
And it was cold, and it rained, so i felt like an actor
E chordE
And i thoought of Ma, and i wanted to get back there
Am chordAm
Your face, Your race, the way that you talk
C chordC G chordG
I kiss you, you're beautifull, I want you to walk. we got

G chordG
[[: five years stuck on my eyes
E chordE
five years what a surprise we got
Am chordAm
five years my brain hurts a lot
C chordC G chordG
five years that's all we got we've got :]]

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About this song: Five Years

"Five Years" is a song written by David Bowie and released in 1972. It was the opening track on the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The song tells of an Earth doomed to destruction in five years and the aftermath of this knowledge. Bowie is rumoured to have chosen the length of time, five years, as a result of a dream in which his deceased father told him he must never fly again and would die in five years.

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