Life On Mars Chords

Song: Life on Mars?
Artist: David Bowie
Composer: David Bowie
Album: Hunky Dory
 
Tabbed by DJ  6th May 2015
 
CAPO: 3rd fret
(Will then sound in the recorded key of F)
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers.
 
D     = xx0232   F7/D#  = xx1211   Cm7       = x35343
D/C#  = x40232   A#     = x13331   Emmaj7/D# = xx1000
D/C   = x30232   F#aug  = xx4332   Em6/C#    = x42000
B7    = x21202   Gm     = xx5333   D#dim7    = xx1212
Em    = xx2000   A#7/G# = xx6766   Fdim/B    = x20101
Em7/D = xx0000   G      = 320003   F#m       = 244222
A7    = x02020   C      = x32013   Gm9       = 353335
F/C   = x33211   Em7    = 022030   Gm7       = 353333
C#aug = x4322x   D#aug  = xx1003   G/D       = xx0003
Dm    = xx0231   Am7    = x02010   Cm        = x35543
 
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[Verse 1]
D         D/C#                       D/C
   It's a god - awful small affair...
          B7                         Em
...to the girl with the mousy hair,
        Em7/D                        A7
But her mummy is yelling, 'No!',
                              D
And her Daddy has told her to go,
        D/C#                    D/C
But her friend is nowhere to be seen,
        B                               Em
Now she walks through her sunken dream,
       Em7/D                            A7
To the seat  with the clearest view,
                                        F/C
And she's hooked to the silver screen,
        C#aug                     Dm
But the film is a saddening bore,
          F7/D#                         A#
For she's lived it ten times or more,
          F#aug               Gm
She could spit in the eyes of fools,
        A#7/G#
As they ask   her to focus on...
 
[Chorus]
G       C                            Em7
Sailors fighting in the dance hall,
          D#aug                 D    Dm
Oh, man!  Look at those cavemen go,
                   Am7    Cm7
It's the freakiest show,
                   G      C                       Em7
Take a look at the Lawman beating up the wrong guy,
          D#aug                       D   Dm
Oh, man!  Wonder if he'll ever know...
                            Am7    Cm7
...He's in the best selling show?
                 Em   Emmaj7/D#  Em7/D  Em6/C#
Is there life on Mars---------------------------?
 
[Break]
  D            D#dim7       Em           Fdim/B
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 
   F#m         G           Gm9 Gm7
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 
[Verse 2]
D            D/C#                      D/C
     It's on America's tortured brow,
            B                          Em
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow,
        Em7/D                          A7
Now the workers have struck for fame,
                                D
'Cause Lennon's on sale again,
        D/C#                           D/C
See the mice in their million hordes...
            B7                  Em
...From I - biza to The Norfolk Broads,
           Em7/D                     A7
Rule Bri - tannia is out of bounds...
                                     F/C
...To my mother, my dog, and clowns,
        C#aug                        Dm
But the film   is a saddening bore,
         F7/D#                       A#
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more,
         F#aug                       Gm
It's a - bout to be writ again,
        A#7/G#
As they ask   her to focus on...
 
[Chorus]
G       C                           Em7
Sailors fighting in the dance hall,
          D#aug                 D   Dm
Oh, man!  Look at those cavemen go,
                   Am7    Cm7
It's the freakiest show
                   G      C                       Em7
Take a look at the Lawman beating up the wrong guy,
         D#aug                       D  Dm
Oh, man! Wonder if he'll ever know...
                            Am7   Cm7
...He's in the best selling show?
                 Em   Emmaj7/D#  Em7/D  Em6/C#
Is there life on Mars---------------------------?
 
[Coda]
  D            D#dim7       Em           G/D
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 
 G/D                        C            Cm
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 
  G
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / ||
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