Life On Mars Uke tab by David Bowie

27 Chords used in the song: D, D/C#, Am/C, B7, E, Em/D, A/C#, Em, F, F+, Dm, A#, D7, Gm, G, C, Cm, Am, G+, Em7, A7, Dsus4, A, AM, EM, DM, GM

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Year:  1971
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3.42
(Beginner)
Key: unknownChords
D chordD      D/C# chordD/C#            Am/C chordAm/C          B7 chordB7                  E chordE
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
Em/D chordEm/D A/C# chordA/C# D chordD
But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
D/C# chordD/C# Am/C chordAm/C
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
B7 chordB7 Em chordEm
as she walks through her sunken dream
Em/D chordEm/D A/C# chordA/C#
To the seat with the clearest view
F chordF
and she's hooked to the silver screen
F+ chordF+ Dm chordDm
But the film is a saddening bore
D chordD A# chordA#
For she's lived it ten times or more
D7 chordD7 Gm chordGm A# chordA#
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on

CHORUS:
G chordG C chordC D chordD
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
Em chordEm Cm chordCm D chordD Dm chordDm Am chordAm
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show
Cm chordCm G chordG C chordC D chordD
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
Em chordEm Cm chordCm D chordD Dm chordDm Am chordAm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show
Cm chordCm Em chordEm G+ chordG+ Em7 chordEm7 A7 chordA7 C chordC Dsus4 chordDsus4 A chordA
Is there life on Mars?

D chordD AM chordAM
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
B7 chordB7 EM chordEM
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
EM chordEM A chordA
Now the workers have struck for fame
A chordA D chordD
Cause Lennon's on sale again
D chordD AM chordAM
See the mice in their million hordes
B7 chordB7 EM chordEM
>From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
EM chordEM A chordA
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
F chordF
To my mother, my dog and clowns
F chordF DM chordDM
But the film is a saddening bore
D chordD A# chordA#
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
D7 chordD7 GM chordGM
It's about to be writ again
A# chordA#
As I ask you to focus on ...CHORUS

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About this song: Life On Mars

In 1968, Bowie wrote "Even a Fool Learns to Love", a song with lyrics by Bowie set to the music of a 1967 French song ("Comme d'habitude"). Bowie's song was never released, but Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version, and rewrote it into "My Way," made famous by Frank Sinatra in a 1969 recording on his album of the same name. The success of the Anka version prompted Bowie to write "Life on Mars?" as a parody of Sinatra's recording. Bowie described how he wrote the song in notes for a Bowie compilation CD that accompanied a June 2008 issue of The Mail on Sunday:

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