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From: Harlan L Thompson 

LIFE ON MARS?- David Bowie

G (320003@1)    G/f#            Dm/F          E7 (020130@1)                AmIt's (x02210@1)a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
         Am/G (302210@1)           D/F# (200232@1)                             GBut (320003@1)her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
          G/f#                  Dm/F
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
        E7 (020130@1)                     Amas (x02210@1)she walks through her sunken dream
        Am/G (302210@1)                D/F#To (200232@1)the seat with the clearest view
                                Bband (x1333x@1)she's hooked to the silver screen
          Bb+                GmBut (355333@1)the film is a saddening bore
            Ab (xx1114@1)                 EbFor (x43121@3)she's lived it ten times or more
           G7 (320001@1)                 Cm (x3101x@1)        EbShe (x43121@3)could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on

CHORUS:
  C (x32010@1)       F (133211@1)                 GSailors, (320003@1)fighting in the dance hall
 Am (x02210@1)    Fm (133111@1)                  G (320003@1)Gm (355333@1)                DmOh (xx0231@1)man! look at those cavemen go,    it's a freakest show
Fm (133111@1)                 C (x32010@1)    F (133211@1)                  GTake (320003@1)a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
Am (x02210@1)     Fm (133111@1)                   GGm                          DmOh (xx0231@1)man!  Wonder if he'll ever know   he's in the best selling show
Fm (133111@1)              Am (x02210@1) C+  Am7 (x02010@1)D7 (xx0212@1)F (133211@1)Gsus4 (3x0013@1)DIs (xx0232@1)there life on Mars?

It's on Amerika's tortured brow
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
>From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on  ...CHORUS

Bb+:  2 2 4 3 3 2     Eb:    x 6 5 3 4 3
C+:   x 0 2 1 1 0     Gsus4: 3 2 0 0 1 3
Dm/F: 1 x 0 2 3 1

NOTE: For the verse, pick with the following pattern- the base note and
first and second strings all simultaneously, then the third string.  For
the chorus, strum.

(from Hunky Dory, 1971)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)