Chords for Life On Mars Acoustic Tutorial David Bowie

_ _ _ _ _ [D] It's a god-awful small [C] affair
[Am] To [B] the girl with the mousy [Em] hair
_ [G] But her mummy is yelling [A] no
_ And her daddy has told [D] her to go
_ But her friend is nowhere [C] to be seen
_ [B] Now she walks through a sunken [E] dream
_ [G] To a seat with the [A] clearest view
_ And she's hooked to the silver [F] screen
_ [C#] But the film is a sad [Dm] nimble
_ _ For [F] she lifted ten times or [A#] more
_ [D] She could spit in the eyes of [Gm] fools
As [A#] they ask her to focus [G] on the sailors
[C] Fighting in [Em] the dance of old men
[B] Look at those [Em] cavemen [D] go _ _
It's the [Am] freakiest show
_ [Cm] Take a [G] look at the law [A] [C] man
Beating up [Em] the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever [D] know
_ _ _ [Dm] He's in a best-selling [C] show
_ [Cm] Is their life [Em] on Mars?
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ It's [F#m] on [D] America's torture [Am] ground
That [B] Mickey Mouse has grown up [E] a cow
_ [G] Now the workers have struck for [C#m] fame
_ [A] Cos Lennon's on sale [D] again
_ _ [C#] See the mice in [D] their million [Am] hordes
_ [B] From Ibiza to the North [Em] Abroad
_ [G] Rupert Tannier is out of [A] bounds
_ To my mother, my dog and [F] clowns
_ _ [C#] But the film is a sad [Dm] nimble
_ Cos I wrote it ten [F] times or [A#] more
_ _ [D] It's about to get rich [Gm] again
_ _ [A#] As I ask you to focus [G] on the sailors
[C] Fighting in [Em] the dance of old men
Look at those [D] cavemen go
_ _ [Dm] _ It's the [Am] freakiest show
_ _ [Cm] Take a look at the [G] law [C] man
Beating up the wrong [Em] guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever [D] know
_ _ _ [Dm] He's in a best [Am]-selling show
_ [G] Is [Cm] their [Em] life on Mars?
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [A#] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
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I've chosen to do this without a capo, just in standard tuning.
_ _ _ I've put the chords up to play along with me.
So rather than me going through it step by step,
the best thing to do, in my opinion,
would be to learn the chord progression
and just go round, just playing the chords, single [Am] strums, _ [B] and so on, OK? _
And then try and play along nice and slowly by yourself
and then try and play along with the video
and then if you're kind of like me, you like to sing and play these things _
I've just brought the lyrics up in front of me here
because sometimes I get tongue twisted
So I memorise the chords so I don't have to worry about the chords
and I've just got the lyrics in front of me
and just go through it slowly
Now, I know the song, [Em] but the funny thing about it
as soon as you press record on the camera
it's like, oh, I mustn't get it right
so it's just kind of like my backup
Don't think I'm this perfect musician, I'm far from it
As you can hear, there's some mistakes in there
I'll leave them in because, you know, I'm a genuine player
and what you see is what you get, OK?
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