David Bowie
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Fantastic Voyage African Night Flight Move On Yassassin Red Sails D.J. Look Back In Anger Boys Keep Swinging Repetition Red Money |
Key ~ tremelo/trill b bend r return h hammer p pull off (ghost note) / slide up \ slide down . kill note : repeat |
Fantastic Voyage
|D | |E |
In the event that this fantastic voyage
|E |Gm |Gm |
should turn to erosion and we
|D | |E
never get old remember it's true
|E |Gm |Gm |
dignity is valuable but our lives are valuable
|D |D |A |
too.................... We're.........
|D | |A |
learning to live with some body's depression And I
|A |D | |
And I don't want to live with some body's depre
|G | |A |
ssion We'll..... get by I...... suppose.......
|A |A |A |
It's a very modern world but nobody's perfect
It's a moving world but that's no reason
To shoot some of those missiles think of us as fatherless scum
It won't be forgotten Cause we'll never say anything nice again will
|D | | |
we..............................................................?
|E | |G |
And the wrong words make you li
|G |D | |
sten in this criminal world Remember it's
|E | |G |
true a loyalty is valuable but our
|G |D |D |
lives are valuable too.......................
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African Night Flight (needs help/more work)
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|3-4~-----------|3-4~-----------|2-3~-----------|2-3~-----------|
|1-2~-----------|1-2~-----------|0-1~-----------|0-1~-----------|
African night... etc
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|4-------5------|4--------------|---------------|---------------|
|2-------3------|2------3-------|4---4---4--4---|4---4---4---4--|
|---------------|-------1-------|2---2---2--2---|2---2---2---2--|
His burning eye will see me through
One of these days, one of these days
Gotta get a word through one of these days
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|3---3---3---3--|3---3---3---3--|2-3~-----------|2-3~-----------| |3-4~
|1---1---1---1--|1---1---1---1--|0-1~-----------|0-1~-----------| |1-2~
Asanti habari habari habari Getting
Asanti nabana nabana nabana
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Move On
|Db | F# |Db | F# |Db |
Sometimes I feel The need to move on So I pack a
| G |Db | G |Db | |
bag and move on Move on Well I might take a
|Db | F# |Db | F# |Db |
train Or sail at dawn Might take a girl
|Db | G |Db | G |Db Ab B F# |
When I move on When I move on
|:B |E |F# |
Somewhere, someone's calling me when the chips are
Somewhere there's a morning sky Bluer than her eyes
|Abm |Db Bbm |
down I'm just a travelling man
Somewhere there's an ocean
|Db :|
Maybe it's just a trick of the mind, but
Innocent and wild Db Ab B F#
|B | Abm |F# | Ebm |
Africa is sleepy people Russia has its horsemen
|E | |A E F# Abm | |
Spent some nights in old Kyoto Sleeping on the matted ground
|B Ebm |Db Bbm |E |
Cyprus is my island When the going's rough I would love to find you
|A E F# Abm | |Db (as in first verse)
Somewhere in a place like that
|:B |E |F# |
|Abm |Db Bbm |Db :|
Somewhere, someone's calling me When the chips are down
I stumble like a blind man Can't forget you Can't forget you
Feeling like a shadow Drifting like a leaf
I stumble like a blind man Can't forget you Can't forget you
Can't forget you Can't forget you (Outro )Db Ab B F# Eb?
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Yassassin
E9
|777-----------
|777-----------
|777-7-7-------
|----6-6--5/6--
|--------7---7-
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|E9 |E9 |E9 |
Yas..
..sas..sin... I'm not a moody guy Yas..
..sas..sin... I walk without a sound Yas..
|E9 |F9 |F9 |
..sas..sin... Just a working man no judge of men Yas..sas
|E9 |E9 |E9 |
.sin...... But such a life I've never known
E9
We came from the farmlands to live in this city
We walked proud and lustful in this resonant world
You want to fight, but I don't want to leave or drift away
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Red Sails Intro |e----10~~~~~~~~~| with D bass
|D |D |D |D |
Feel a bit roughed up feel a bit frightened nearly pin it down some time
|F |F | | Ab A|
Red sail action wake up in the wrong town boy I really get around
|D D |D D (Eb)|E | |
Thunder ocean Thunder ocean....oh oh oh
|E |E |G | |
Red sails take me make me sail along...........
|G |G |F |F |F |F |
|D D |D |D |D |
Red sails and a mast so tall
|E E |E |E E |E |
Red sails Red sails
Solo
|A |A |A |A |
|D |D |D |D |
|D |D |D |D |
Do you remember we another person green and black and red and so scared
|F |F |F |F |
Graffiti on the wall kept us all in tune bringing us all back home
|D D |D |D D |D |
Red sails Thunder ocean Red sails Sailor can't dance like
|E E |E |E E |E |
you... . . . ooh yooou aaah..
|G |G |G |G |
... red sail Red sail action Red sail Some reaction
|F |F |F |F |
|D D |D |D D |D D |
notes Eb Db notes D Db D Eb D
|E E |E |E E |E |
|A |A |A |A |
|D |D |D D |D |
|D |D |D |D |
Action boy seen living under neon struggle with a foreign tongue
|F |F |F |F |
Red sails make him strong action make him sail along
|D D |D |D |D |
Life stands still and stares
|E |E |E |E |
|A |A |A |A |
The hinterland the hinterland We're gonna sail to the hinterland & its
|D |D |D |D |
far far far far far far far far away its a far far far far far fa da da da da
|G |G |G |G |
One two three four
|F |F |F |F |
Ooooooh
|D 4 bars then |E start to fade
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A (verse riff)
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|----------------
|-----7~---------
|-----7~--5--7---
|7-7---------7---
|5-5-------------
I'm home, lost my job, and incurably ill, you think this is easy, realism
I've got a girl out there, I suppose I think she's dancing
Feel like Dan Dare lies down I think she's dancing, what do I know?
|:Am |E7 |
I am a D.J., I am what I play
|F7 |F7 :|X3
Can't turn around no, can't turn around, no oh oh
|Am7 |D9 |
|Am |Bm |C |Am |D7 |
Time flies when you're having fun, break his heart break her heart
|A (bass seems to go A G# G F# F E then back to A)
He used to be my boss and now he is a puppet dancer
I am a D.J., and I've got believers
(Verse riff & fade)
I've got believers I've got believers I've got believers in me
I've got believers I am a D.J., I am what I play I am a D.J.
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Look Back in Anger
Intro
|E e-12---.-- | | | |
b-15b17.--
|D |A |F#m | You|
|E | | | |
know who I am, he said
|D |A |F#m | |
The speaker was an angel He coughed & shook Closed his eyes
his crumpled wings & moved his lips
|C | |G | |
lips It's time we should be go........ing
|:E (Chorus) | | | |
Waiting so long I've been waiting so waiting so....
Look back in
|D |A |F#m | :|
anger........., driven by the night 'til you come
see it in my eyes
|C | |G | |
intro x2
|C | |
No one seemed to hear him so he leafed through a magazine and
|G | |
yawning rubbed the sleep away, very sane he seemed....... to me
(chorus)
.........
|C | |G | |
waiting so long aaaahhhhh
fade with chorus
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Boys Keep Swinging
|D | | | |
Heaven loves ya
|E | | | |
The clouds are for ya
|Bb | | | |
nothing stands in your way when you're a boy
|D | | | |
...
|E | | | |
Clothes always fit ya
|Bb | | | |
life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy..
|D | | | |
.... when you're a boy..
|A | |D | |
..... you can wear a uniform when you're a boy..
..... other boys check you out you get a girl..
|G | | | |
...... these are your favorite things when you're a boy..
|A | |bass | |
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|bass-----------|------------------| X 4
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|-------------5-|7---5-------------|
|------5-7-7----|------7-5-7-5-----|
|5-5-8----------|--------------8-5-|
Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging, boys always work it
|D | | | |
out One hates the colors
|E | | | |
unfurl the flag
|Bb | | | |
love just kissed you hello when you're a boy..
|D | | | |
...
|E | | | |
They'll never clone ya
|Bb | | | |
You're always first on the line when you're a boy..
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Repetition
The chords seem to repeat A & B then C G9 C G9 and back to A & B
Johnny is a man
And he's bigger than you
But his overheads are high
And he looks straight through when you ask him how the kids are
Red Money
intro then
|G |A | |G |
on the e bass -> 3---33--0--3 repeat
One of the fills on the D string-> |5---3---0-/3--/5~|
Oh, can you feel it in the way
That a man is not a man?
Can you see it in the sky
That the landscape is too high?
Like a nervous disease
And it's been there all along
It will tumble from the sky
It's been there all along
Project cancelled
Tumbling central
Red Money
Can you hear it fall
Can you hear it well
Can you hear it at all
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