Life On Mars? Uke tab by David Bowie

21 Chords used in the song: G, Gmaj7, G7, Am, E7, C, Gsus2, D, D/Gsus2, A#7, G#, Eb, Cm, C#, F, Fm, Gm, Dm, D7, A, E

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Year:  1971
Difficulty: 
4.2
(Intermediate)
Key: unknownChords and Tablature
Original key: -1.0 step(s) (original tuning)
Chord progression arranged for the Ukulele
Intro: F chordF, Fmaj7 chordFmaj7, F7 chordF7, Gm chordGm, D7 chordD7, Gm chordGm, Gm chordGm maj7, A# chordA#, Fsus2 chordFsus2, C chordC

F chordF Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 F7 chordF7
It's a god-awful small affair
Gm chordGm D7 chordD7 Gm chordGm
To the girl with the mousy hair
Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 F7 chordF7
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
C chordC Fsus2 chordFsus2 F chordF
And her daddy has told her to go
Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 F7 chordF7
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
D7 chordD7 Gm chordGm
Now she walks through her sunken dream
A# chordA# C chordC
To the seat with the clearest view
C/Gsus2 chordC/Gsus2
And she's hooked to the silver screen

G# chordG# (G#7 chordG#7) Fm chordFm
But the film is a saddening bore
F# chordF# C# chordC#
For she's lived it ten times or more
F7 chordF7 A#m chordA#m
She could spit in the eyes of fools
B chordB
As they ask her to focus on

A# chordA# D# chordD#
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm chordGm
Oh man!
D#m chordD#m F chordF Fm chordFm
Look at those cavemen go
Cm chordCm D#m chordD#m
It's the freakiest show
A# chordA#
Take a look at the Lawman
D# chordD#
Beating up the wrong guy
Gm chordGm D#m chordD#m F chordF Fm chordFm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
Cm chordCm D#m chordD#m
He's in the best selling show
Gm chordGm Gm chordGm maj7 A# chordA# C7 chordC7
Is there life on Mars?

Bridge: F chordF, F7 chordF7, Gm chordGm, D#m chordD#m, F chordF

(repeat chords)

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns

But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

to play Gm chordGm maj7:
G chordG|0|
D chordD|0|
A# chordA#|0|
F chordF|1|

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About this song: Life On Mars?

"Life on Mars?" is a song by David Bowie first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory and also released as a single. The song—which BBC Radio 2 later called "a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalí painting"—featured guest piano work by keyboardist Rick Wakeman. When released as a single in 1973, it reached #3 in the UK and stayed on the chart for thirteen weeks. The song re-entered the UK charts at #55 over 30 years later, largely because of its use in the original British television series Life on Mars. Read more on Last.fm.

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