• Song:

    Bowie

  • Artist:

    Flight Of The Conchords

  • Album:

    Folk the World Tour

This tab changes with each performance that they give, but here it is none the less.

Bowie by Flight of the Conchords


Em7 Cadd9 D
E?3-3?0-0?2-2---------------------------|
B?3-3?3-3?3-3-------------------0h2s----| *The slide is optional, and it trails off
G?0-0?0-0?2-2------------0h2h3----------|
D?2-2?2-2?0-0----0h2h4------------------|
A?2-2?3-3?0-0---------------------------|
E?0-0?0-0?0-0---------------------------|
Repeat 2x

Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Bowie?s in space
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Bowie?s in spa-he-hase
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Whatcha doin? out there, man?
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
That?s pretty freaky, Bowie
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
What?s a rock musician doing out in space, man?
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Isn?t it cold, quite cold out there, Bowie?
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Do you need my jumper, Bowie?
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Does the space cold do funny things to your nipples, making them all pointy? Bowie.
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9 Em7
Do you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antenna transmitting data back to Earth?
Cadd9 D Cadd9
Data back to Earth d-d-do, d-d-do, do do
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
I bet you do, you freaky old bastard, you.
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Is it lonely out there in space, man, or is there life on Mars?
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Wouldn?t that be weird, ?cause you wrote that song, ?Is there Life on Mars??
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
You could write a follow-up tune and call it, ?And There Is?.
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Mmmmm, and there is. Yes, there is.
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
There's heaps of it, and it's all freaking out at my new look.
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Bowie, do you have one really funky sequined space suit, Bowie?
Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9 Em7 Cadd9 D Cadd9
Or do you have several ch-ch-ch-ch-changes? Space changes

Em7 Cadd9 D
Do they smoke grass up there, man?
Cadd9 Em7
Or do they smoke Astro-Turf?

Move D shape from 1st to 4th frets
Db D D# E
(beeping sounds) Receiving transmission from David Bowie?s nipple antennae.

G G G G G G G
E--3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------------------------------------------------|
B--3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------------------------------------------------|
G--4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------------------------------------------|
D--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------------------| Repeat once
A--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------------------|
E --3-3-3-3-3-3-3?000 (three quick strikes, maybe hit the A, too--|

G F
This is Bowie to Bowie, do you hear me out there, man?
G F G
This is Bowie back to Bowie, I read you loud and clear, man.
G G (let ring)
Oooh yeah, man!
G F
Your signal is weak on my radar screen,
F G F
How far out are you, man? I?m pretty far out
F G
That?s pretty far out, man!
G A
O-o-oh, I?m orbiting Pluto!
A B
Ooh Ah ooh
B B#
Drawn in by its Groovatational, Groovatational pull.
B#
I?m jamming out with the Mick Jaggernauts
G F F F (let ring)
And they think it?s pretty cool man?.

Oooooooh!

(fingerpicked, free feeling)

F G
Are you okay, Bowie? What was that sound?
G A
I don?t know man, I?d better turn my ship around.
A G
Oh, it?s the craziest scene.

G G#
Yeah, I?m picking it up on my LSD screen.
G# A
Ooh, but can you see the stratosphere?ringing?
F (nc)
To the choir of afronauts singing?

(Slide Barred F shape up and down neck)
(Fingerpicking ceases)
Em7 Cadd9 D
Hey now, I?m a meenie miney mowie! (set your phasers on funky)
Em7 Cadd9 D
Hey now, I?m a meenie miney mowie! (phaser sounds)
Em7 Cadd9 D
Hey now, I?m a meenie miney miney miney mowie!
D Cadd9 G F F F
B-B-B-Bowie?s in??
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