Five Years Uke tab by David Bowie (Baritone Chords)

6 Chords used in the song: G, Em, A, C, Am, D

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Year:  1972
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3.17
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Key: G, EmChords
Five Years - David Bowie


G G Em Em
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing
A A C C
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
G G Em Em
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
A A C C
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
G G
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
Em Em
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
A A
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
C C
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
Am Am C C Am Am
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
C C G G C C D D
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
C C
I never thought I'd need so many people


G G Em Em
A A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
A A C C
If the black hadn't a pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
G G Em Em
A A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A A C C
A A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that
G G Em Em
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long
A A C C
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in this song
G G
And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor
Em Em
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
A A
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
C C
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk


G G Em Em
We got five years, stuck on my eyes - Five years, what a suprise
A A C C
We got five years, my brain hurts alot - Five years, that's all we got
G G Em Em
We got five years, what a surprise - Five years, stuck on my eyes
A A C C
We got five years, my brain hurts alot - Five years, that's all we got

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i do DDUDU throughout the whole song . or try after each line or lyric ill strum DDD before changing chords . more exageratted
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