Life On Mars Uke tab by David Bowie (Baritone Chords)

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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Artist: David Bowie

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

Difficulty:

3.42

(Beginner)

Key: unknownChords

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

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

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