David Bowie
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It's No Game Up the Hill Backwards Scary Monsters Ashes To Ashes Fashion Teenage Wildlife |
Key ~ tremelo/trill b bend r return h hammer p pull off (ghost note) / slide up \ slide down : repeat |
Its No Game
|D | D Db |Am | Am |
(Japanese bit)
|G | |------------------C-----
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8\7/8\7/8\7-8---6\5-5---
7\6/7\6/7\6-7---6\5-5---
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|D | D Db |Am | Am |
Silhouettes and shadows watch the revolution
|G | |-----------------C-----
No more free steps to heaven -----------------5-----
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8\7/8\7/8\7-8----3-----
6\5/6\5/6\5-6----------
And it's no
|D | |Am | |
game.... aahh.... ooh.....
|C |E |A | |
ooh ooh......ooh ooh.......
Next verse as above
|Em | | | |
Doc um ent aries on ref u gees...
|A | | | |
couples against their targets
|C | |G | |
You throw a rock against the road and it
|A | | | |
breaks into pieces
|Em | | | |
Draw the blinds on yesterday and it's
|A | | | |
all so much scarier
|C | |G | |
Put a bul.....let in.. my brain and it
|A | | | |
makes all the papers (Japanese comes in)
|E |E |B |B |
Solo
|D |A |E |E |
|E |E |E |E |
|B |B |D |A |
|B |B |C |C# |
Back to verse
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Up The Hill Backwards
Intro - strum an A
Then repeat
|:A A A |D D D |C C C |A A A :|
The vacuum (2nd time)
|A |D |E |A |
The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom
|A |F#m |E |D |
And the possibilities it seems to offer It's got
|A |D |E |A |
nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it It's got
|A |F#m |E |D |
nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it A
|A |D |E |A |
series of shocks sneakers fall apart
|A |F#m |E |D |
Earth keeps on rolling witnesses falling It's got
|A |D |E |A |
nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it It's got
|A |F#m |E |D |
nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it
|D |D |D |D |
Yeah yeah yeah up the hill back
|D |E |D |A |
wards It'll be... al right ooh ooh
While we sleep they go to work
We're legally crippled it's the death of love
It's got nothing to do with you if one can grasp it
It's got nothing to do with you if one can grasp it
More idols than realities ooh ooh
I'm OK, you're so so ooh ooh
Yeah, yeah, yeah up the hill backwards
It'll be alright ooh ooh
Outro as for Intro
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Scary Monsters
E D E E
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|9---7--9---|7---7--9---|9----7--9--|9---7--9---| 7--9 during verse
|9----------|7----------|9----------|9----------|
|7----------|5----------|7----------|7----------|
|0----------|-----------|0----------|0----------|
E D A
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She had an
|E |D |E 2 bars
'orror of rooms she was tired you can't hide beat When I
looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home Well she
could've been a killer if she didn't walk the way she do, and she do She
opened strange doors that we'd..... never close again She
|E |D |C |G D |
began to wail jealousies scream waiting at the light know what I mean
E E/B (might stay on E, bass playing B, or B)
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|9/10\9--------|9/10\9--------|9/10\9--------|9/10\9--------|
|7-------------|7-------------|7-------------|7-------------|
|0-------------|0-------------|7-------------|7-------------|
Scary monsters
E/B
|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
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|9/10\9--------|9/10\9--------|9/10\9--------|9/10\9--------|
|7-------------|7-------------|7-------------|7-------------|
|7-------------|7-------------|7-------------|7-------------|
super creeps Keep me running
|A | |repeat then intro for solo
running scared
She asked me to stay and I stole her room
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind
Now she's stupid in the street and she can't socialize
Well I love the little girl and I'll love her till the day she dies
She wails
Jimmy's guitar sound jealousies scream
Waiting at the lights know what I mean
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Ashes To Ashes
Intro - repeat 3 times (actual notes are an octave higher)
Note the way Bowie leaves out the fill on the second Ab
This gives a lovely shifting feel with the 5 fills
seeming to rotate around the six chords. He uses the same
idea with fade out vocals.
Bbm Ab Ebm
|--6-8---------|8-------------|6-------------|
|6-------------|--9-6---------|--7-----------|
|--------------|--------------|----8---------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|
Bbm Ab Ebm
|--6-8---------|--------------|6-------------|
|6-------------|--------------|-(7)-implied--|
|--------------|--------------|----8---------|
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|--------------|Vocal start---|--------------|
|Ab | |Fm | |
Do you remember a guy that's been In such an early song
Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight
|Db | |Eb | |
I've heard a rumour from Ground Control Oh no, don't say it's true
But the little green wheels are following me Oh no, not again
|Gb | |
They got a message from the Action Man
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
|Db |Ab/C |Gb |
I'm happy, hope you're happy too I've
I'm happy, hope you're happy too
|Gb |Ab |F\A |
loved all I've needed to love, sordid details following
One flash of light but no smoking pistol
|Bb | |
The shrieking of nothing is killing me Just
I never done good things
|F | |
pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I
I never done bad things
|Ab | |Eb | |
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
I never did anything out of the blue wo oh oh
|Gb | |Db |F |
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing, (glowing) glowing
Want an axe to break the ice Wanna come down right now
|Gb |Ab |Db | |
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie
|Gb |Ab |Bbm (intro) |Ab |
Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all time low
Outro
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
all time low
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
My mamma said to
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
get things done you better not mess with Major Tom
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
My mamma said to get things done you better not mess with
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
Major Tom My mamma said to get things done you
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
better not mess with Major Tom My mamma said to
|Bbm |Ab |Ebm |
get things done you better not mess with Major Tom(fade)
|:Bbm |Ab |Ebm :|
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Fashion
Main Riff
G G F +guitars-> F guitar II Guitar III
|--------------|---------------| |5-5-5----5-5-5-| |---------------|
|--------------|---------------| |6-6-6----6-6-6-| |---------------|
|--------------|-----0---------| |---------------| |---------------|
|5---5---3-----|--------3------| |---------------| |0h2h3-3-3p0h2h3| etc
|5---5---3-----|---------------| |---------------| |---------------|
|3---3---1-----|---------------| |---------------| |---------------|
There's a
|G G F | |Main riff + Fripp fills |
brand new dance but I don't know its name
That people from bad homes do again and again
It's big and it's bland full of tension and fear
They do it over there but we don't do it here
|Bb Ab |
Fashion turn to the left
Fashion turn to the right
Oooh fashion
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep beep, Beep beep
|Dm |C
Listen to me, don't listen to me Talk to me, don't talk to me
|Dm |F
Dance with me, don't dance with me no Beep beep
C
|-------1----------1-4b--
|1h3p1h3--1-1h3p1h3------
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There's a.... (as above)
Outro
|:G F | F |
Oh wop doh doh doh doh doh doh doh
|G |G F :|
Fa fa fa fa fashion
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Teenage Wildlife
Transcribed by David Maynard
(intro) G# C#
G# C#
Well,how come you only want tomorrow
G# C#
With its promise of something hard to do
G# D#
A real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
F# C# G#
Blue skies above and sun on your arms strength in your stride
D#
And hope in those squeaky clean eyes
F#
You'll get chilly receptions everywhere you go
C# G# D#
Blinded with desire - guess the season is on
G# C#
So you train by the shadow boxing, search for the truth
But it's all, but it's all used up
G#
Break open your million dollar weapon
C#
And push your luck, still you push, still you push your luck
G#
A broken nosed mogul are you
D#
One of the new wave boys
F#
Same old thing in brand new drag
C# G# D#
Comes sweeping into view, oh-ooh
F#
As ugly as a teenage millionaire
C# G#
Pretending it's a whizz kid world
D#
You'll take me aside, and say
F#
"well David, what shall I do?"
C#
They wait for me in the hallway"
G# C#
I'll say "dont ask me, I don't know any hallways"
G# D#
But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner
G#
I feel like a group of one,no-no
C#
They can't do this to me
G# C# G#
I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife
Fm D#
Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes
Fm D#
The word is that the hunted one is out there on his own
F#
You're alone for maybe the last time
And you breath for a long time
C#
Then you howl like a wolf in a trap
And you daren't look behind
Fm D#
You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree
G# C#
And look up one time at the vast blue sky
Fm
Scream out aloud as they shoot you down
F# C# G# C#
No no, I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife
G# C# G# D# F# C# G# D#
I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife
C# G# C# G#
And no one will have seen and no on will confess
C# G# C#
The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test G#
C# G# C#
There'll be others on the line filing past, who'll whisper low G#
C#
I miss you he really had to go
Well each to his own, he was
G# C#
Another piece of teenage wildlife, 0h-0h-0h-ohh
G# C#
Another piece of teenage wildlife, 0h-oh-oh-ohh
G#
Another piece of teenage wild....
C#
Wild
G#
Wild
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