David Bowie : Ziggy Stardust

G

Pushing through the market square

/g

/f#

Em

So many mothers sighing

A

News had just come over

/a

/b

C

We had five years left to cry in News guy wept and told us Earth was really dying Cried so much his face was wet Then I knew he was not lying

/c

/d

G

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

G

D

Em

I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs

A

My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

C

I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

Am

/b

C

And all the fat skinny people

Am

/b

C

And all the tall short people

C

Bm

Am

G

C

And all the nobody people

C

Bm

Am

D7

And all the somebody people

Am

/b

C

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C

Bm

Am

C

I never thought I'd need so many people A girl my age went off her head Hit some tiny children If the black had not pulled her off I think she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest And a queer threw up at the sight of that I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour Drinking milkshakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine Don't think you knew you were in this song

C

Bm

Am

G

And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor

G

F#m

Em

And I thought of Ma, and I wanted to get back there

A

Your face, your race, the way that you talk

C

I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk We got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise Five years, my brain hurts a lot We got five years, that's all we've got...

Key:

G

Stone love, she kneels before the grave

Em

/e

/d

C

A brave son who gave his life to save the slogan

G

That hovers between the headstone and her eyes

Bm

Am

D

For they penetrate her grieving

G

New love, a boy and girl and talking

Em

/e

/d

C

New words that only they can share in new words

G

A love so strong it tears their hearts to sleep

Bm

Am

D

Through the fleeting hour of morning

Am

Love is careless in its choosing

Em

Sweeping over blossom baby

F

C

Love descends on those defenceless

D

Idiot love will spark the fusion

C

D7

Inspiration have I none

G7

C

Just to touch the flaming dove

Cm

G

All I have is my love of love

Dsus4

D7

And love is not loving

Sax solo over verse chords.

Modulate to:

A

Soul love, the priest that tastes the word and

F#m

/f#

/e

D

Told of love, and how my God on high is all love

A

Though reaching up my loneliness evolves

C#m

Bm

E

By the blindness that surrounds him

Bm

Love is careless in its choosing

F#m

Sweeping over blossom baby

G

D

Love descends on those defenceless

E

Idiot love will spark the fusion

D

E7

Inspiration have I none

A7

D

Just to touch the flaming dove

Dm

A

All I have is my love of love

Dsus4

E7

And love is not loving

Guitar solo and la-la-ing over verse chords.

D

I'm an alligator

F#

F#7

Bm

I'm a mama-papa coming for you

/a

E

I'm the space invader

E7

G

I'll be a rock and rolling bitch for you, keep your mouth shut

D

F#

You're squawking like a big monkey bird

F#7

Bm

/a

E

And I'm busting up my brains for the words

D

Don't fake it, baby

F#

F#7

Bm

Lay the real thing on me

/a

E

The church of mad love

E7

G

Is such a holy place to be, make me, baby

D

F#

Make me know you really care

F#7

Bm

/a

E

Make me jump into the air

G

D

E

Keep your electric eye on me, babe

G

D

E

Put your ray-gun to my head

G

D

E

Press your space face close to mine, love

D

E

Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

Bm

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A

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G

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F#

Keep your electric eye on me, babe Put your ray-gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

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Bb

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Bb

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F

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F

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x2

(Hey now now, oh oh oh)

Gm

Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low

F

I leaned back on my radio

C

C7

Some cat was laying down some rock and roll

F

Ab

Bb

Lotta soul, he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren't no DJ that was hazy cosmic jive

A

G

F

Dm

There's a starman waiting in the sky

Am

/g

He'd like to come and meet us

C7

But he thinks he'd blow our minds There's a starman waiting in the sky He's told us not to blow it 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile, he told me

Bb

Bbm

Let the children lose it

F

D7

Let the children use it

Gm

C7

And all the children boogie |

Bb

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F

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C

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F

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Bb

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F

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C

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Gm

| La la la... I had to phone someone so I picked on you Hey that's far out, so you heard him too? Turn on your TV you can pick him up on channel two Look out your window you can see his lights If we can sparkle he may land tonight Don't tell you papa or he'll get us locked up in fright There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds There's a starman waiting in the sky He's told us not to blow it 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile, he told me Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie

D/a

A

D/a

A

D/a

A

D/a

A

D/a

A

D/a

A

When you climb to the top of the mountain, look out over the sea

D/a

A

D/a

A

Think about the places perhaps where a young man could be

D/a

A

D/a

A

Then you jump back down to the rooftops, look out over the town

D/a

C

A

D/a

A

Think about all of the strange things circulating round

C

A

C

A

It ain't easy, it ain't easy

C

Cm

D

It ain't easy to get to heaven

A

When you're going down

D/a

A

D/a

A

Well all the people have got their problems, that ain't nothing new

D/a

A

D/a

A

With the help of the good Lord we can all pull on through

D/a

A

D/a

A

We can all pull on through, get there in the end

D/a

A

D/a

A

Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again It ain't easy, it ain't easy It ain't easy to get to heaven When you're going down Satisfaction, satisfaction, keep me satisfied I've got the love of a Hoochie Coochie woman she calling from inside She's a-calling from inside, trying to get to you All the woman really wants you can give her something too It ain't easy, it ain't easy It ain't easy to get to heaven When you're going down

D/a

A

D/a

A

C

D

A

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A(b5)

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A

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E(b5)

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E

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x2

A

C#

F#m

F#m7

D

People stared at the makeup on his face

A

F#m

E

C#

Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace

F#m

D

A

C#

The boy in the bright blue jeans jumped up on the stage

A

E

D

E

And Lady Stardust sang his songs of darkness and disgrace

A

E

D

E

And he was alright, the band was altogether

A

E

D

E

Yes he was alright, the song went on forever

Em

/d#

/d

/c#

Yes he was awful nice, really quite out of sight

A

E

D

E

And he sang all night long The femme fatales emerged from shadows to watch this creature fair Boys stood upon their chairs to make their point of view I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey And Lady Stardust sang his songs of darkness and dismay And he was alright, the band was altogether Yes he was alright, the songs went on forever And he was awful nice Really quite paradise And he sang all night long

D

/d#

Ooh, how I sighed

Esus4

E

When they asked if I knew his name And he was alright, the band was altogether Yes he was alright, the songs went on forever And he was awful nice Really quite paradise And he sang all night long |

A(b5)

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A

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E(b5)

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E

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x2

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A

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C

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G

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x4

C

G

Tony went to fight in Belfast

C

G

/g

/f#

Rudi stayed at home to starve

Em

D

C

G

I could make it all worthwhile as a rock and roll star Bevan tried to change the nation Sonny wants to turn the world, well he can tell you that he tried I could make a transformation as a rock and roll star

D

Em

So inviting

F

G

/g

/f#

Em

So enticing to play the part

D

C

G

I could play the wild mutation as a rock and roll star

C

G

Bb

F

C

G

Bb

F

Get it all yeah! Ooh yeah!

Em

C

I could do with the money

Em

C

I'm so wiped out with things as they are

Em

D

I'd send my photograph to my honey

Eb

F

G

And I'd come on like a regular superstar |

C

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G

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x2

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/g

/d

| (

Em

)

Repeat entire section from "make a transformation..."

Em

D

C

G

/f#

I could fall asleep at night as a rock and roll star I could fall in love all right as a rock and roll star

C

Bb

Ab

G

Rock and roll star... Rock rock and roll star... Just watch me now!

D

C

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G5

. .

D

C

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G5

. .

D

C

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F#m

Oh she's a tongue twisting storm

A

She will come to the show tonight

B

F#5

A5

B5

Praying to the light machine She wants my honey not my money She's a funky thigh collector Laying on electric dreams

C

D

So come on, so come on

C

D

We've really got a good thing going

C

Well come on, well come on

C

I you think we're gonna make it

A

D

C

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G5

You better hang on to yourself We can't dance, we don't talk much We just ball and play But we move like tigers on Vaseline Well the bitter comes out better On a stolen guitar You're the blessed, we're the Spiders from Mars So come on, so come on We've really got a good thing going Well come on, well come on I you think we're gonna make it You better hang on to yourself

D

C

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G5

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D

C

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Slide solo

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A

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A

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D

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D

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x2

Repeat chorus and slide solo

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G

D

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Cadd9

G/b

G/a

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x2

G

Now, Ziggy played guitar

Bm

C

Jamming good with Weird and Gilly

/c

/b

/c

D

And the Spiders from Mars

G

He played it left hand

Em

But made it too far

A

Became the special man

C

Then we were Ziggy's band Ziggy really sang Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo Like some cat from Japan He could lick 'em by smiling He could leave them to hang They came on so loaded, man Well hung, snow white tan

Am

G5

F5

G5

Am

So where were the spiders

Am

G5

F5

G5

Am

While the fly tried to break our balls?

Am

G5

F5

With just the beer light to guide us

G5

D

So we bitched about his fans

E

And should we crush his sweet hands? |

G

D

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Cadd9

G/b

G/a

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x2

Ziggy played for time Jiving us that we were voodoo The kids were just crass He was the Naz With God given ass He took it all too far But, boy, Could he play guitar! Making love to his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind Like a leper Messiah When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band! |

G

D

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Cadd9

G/b

G/a

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x2

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G

D

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Cadd9

G/b

G/a

| Yeah... ooh...

Cadd9

G

Ziggy played guitar!

G

A

F

G

Hey man, oh leave me alone, you know

A

F

G

Hey man, oh Henry get off the phone, I gotta

A

B

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face

D

F

G

This mellow thigh chick just put my spine out of place Hey man, my school day's insane Hey man, my work's down the drain Hey man, well she's a total blam-blam She said she had to squeeze it but she... then she...

A

Oh don't lean on me, man

D

'Cause you can't afford the ticket

F

C

G

Back from Suffragette City No don't lean on me, man 'Cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City

A

It's outta sight... she's all right Hey man, oh Henry, don't be unkind, go away Hey man, I can't take you this time, no way Hey man, droogie don't crash here There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes Oh don't lean on me, man 'Cause you can't afford the ticket Back from Suffragette City Oh don't lean on me, man 'Cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight... she's all right

A

F

A

Suffragette City...

F

E

A

Suffragette Oh wham, bam, thank you mam!

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C

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G

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x2

C

E7

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth

F

G

Am

G

You pull on your finger, then another finger, then cigarette

F

G

Am

The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget

G

F

(

C

)

G

Oh-oh-oh-oh, you're a rock and roll suicide You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it And the clock waits so patiently on your song You walk past a cafe, but you don't eat when you've lived too long Oh-no-no-no, you're a rock and roll suicide

C

E7

Chev brakes are snarling as you stumbled across the road

F

G

Am

G

But the day breaks instead, so you hurry home

F

G

Don't let the sun blast your shadow

E7

Am

Don't let the milk-float ride your mind

F

D9

G7

It's so natural, religiously unkind!

C

Oh no love you're not alone

A

You're watching yourself but you're too unfair

C

You got your head all tangled

A

But if I could only make you care

Bbm

Abm

Oh no love you're not alone

B

Ebm

No matter what or who you've been

Bbm

Db

No matter when or where you've seen

B

Ebm

All the knives seem to lacerate your brain

Bbm

Db

I've had my share I'll help you with the pain

Bbm

Bb

B

C

Db

You're not alone!

Db

Bb

Just turn on me, you're not alone!

Bb

B

C

Db

Fm

Cm

Gb

Db

Gimme your hands!

David Bowie : Ziggy Stardust
1972

Five Years

Soul Love

Moonage Daydream

Starman

It Ain't Easy

Lady Stardust

Star

Hang On To Yourself

Ziggy Stardust

Suffragette City

Rock And Roll Suicide

David Bowie : Ziggy Stardust 1972

Five Years

Soul Love

Moonage Daydream

Starman

It Ain't Easy

Lady Stardust

Star

Hang On To Yourself

Ziggy Stardust

Suffragette City

Rock And Roll Suicide

David Bowie : Ziggy Stardust
1972