David Bowie – Life On Mars
Life On Mars Chords
Guitar chords and lyrics of Life On Mars by David Bowie
Published 1973
Original key F
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Capo third fret
D D/C# Am/C B7 Em
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
Em/D A/C# D
But her mummy is yelling "No" and her daddy has told her to go
D/C# Am/C
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
B7 Em
now 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# Bb
For she's lived it ten times or more
D7 Gm Bb
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on
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 D/C# Am/C
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
B7 Em
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Em/D A/C#
Now the workers have struck for fame
D D/C# Am/C
Cause Lennon's on sale again
D D/C# Am/C
See the mice in their million hordes
B7 Em
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Em/D A/C#
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
D D/C# Am/C
To my mother, my dog and clowns
F+ Dm
But the film is a saddening bore
D# Bb
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
D7 Gm
It's about to be writ again
Bb
As I ask you to focus on
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?