Rebel Rebel [4:31 approx.]
David Bowie
Best of Bowie - EMI Records Ltd. © 2002
[Tabbed by Vindicity’s bassist - Jeff]
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I guarantee this tab is 100% right, or at least 98% :)

Guitar starts out - here’s the easy bass version of that, just for kicks:
G|----9--7--6---------------------|
D|-------------9-9---11-9---------|
A|-5---------------7------11-7----|
E|--------------------------------|

>Intro - Bass comes in during the fourth time through the guitar lick [the “and” of ‘0:13’]

			    X4
G|-9-7------------|--------------------------|
D|-------9-7------|--------------------------|
A|-----------9-7--|-5-5-5457-----------34----|
E|----------------|-----------4-5(5)-67------|

>Verse 1 - Just continues the intro line, but now there are words!

	        X8
G|----------------------------|
D|----------------------------| from “you’ve got your mother / in a whirl…” to 
A|-5-5-(5)457-----------34----|        “...you want more and you want it ___…”
E|-------------4-5(5)-67------|                    (I’m not sure on lyrics)

>Bridge/Pre-Chorus - mainly chords,Dorsey does some earcandy stuff,but my walking line sounds okay

Chords: (four counts each) 
C#/A                        D           B                     E
  “They put you down/ they say I’m gone/ you tacky thing/ you put them on…”

G|-----------------------------99997------|
D|----------------------------------97----|
A|-0-0-0-----5-----012-2-2345-7-----------|
E|-------234--01234-----------------------|

>Chorus - This part’s easy, it’s the same as the verse

	      X3
G|------------------------|-----------------------------------|
D|------------------------|-----------------------------------|
A|-5-5-5457-----------34--|-5----------------7----------------|
E|-----------4-5(5)-67----|-----------------------------------|

>Lead into Verse 2 - during second guitar lick [on the “and” of ‘1:29’]

			     X2
G|-9-7------------|--------------------------|
D|-----9-7--------|--------------------------|
A|---------9-7----|-5-5-5457-----------34----|
E|-------------9--|-----------4-5(5)-67------|

>Verse 2 - Same as Verse 1, even the same words

>2nd Bridge/Pre-Chorus - this one is just chords, not much walking.

G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|-0-0-0000/555-5543---------------------|
E|------------------7-7-77**-0-0-0-00----|

*asterix's mean that you still play notes there, but you play them AS you gliss,
so there are no exact notes*

>Back to Chorus

>There’s a short instrumental, nothing fancy.  Come in during 2nd guitar lick, on the “and” of ‘2:38’, and
 play the exact same as the intro to Verse 2

>Chorus/Outro - this chorus is the same except the ending and the outro is long but easy

		x3
G|------------------------|-------------------(9)9997-----||--------------------------|
D|------------------------|--------------------------97---||--------------------------|
A|-5-5-5457-----------34--|-5----------------7---------9--||-5-5-5457-----------34----|
E|-----------4-5(5)-67----|-------------------------------||-----------4-5(5)-67------|

                                 X19
G|-----------97-------|------------------------|--------------------------------------|
D|-------------97-----|------------------------|--------------------------------------|
A|-5-5-5457------97---|-5-5-5457-----------34--|-5------------------------------------|
E|-----------------9--|-----------4-5(5)-67----|--------------------------------------|

So there it is… now you can play Rebel Rebel the way it was meant it to be played!
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