David Bowie Tabs
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David Bowie Tabs
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Watch That Man Aladdin Sane Drive In Saturday Panic In Detroit Cracked Actor Time Prettiest Star Lets Spend the Night Together Jean Genie Lady Grinning Soul |
Key ~ tremelo/trill b bend r return h hammer p pull off (ghost note) / slide up \ slide down . kill note |
Watch That Man
Intro
G C Em(7) A
|----------------|7----------------|---------5---------|
|------5---------|8----------------|---7-----5--7------|
|4-----5---------|7----------------|6--7-7h8----7------|
|5-----5---------|9----------------|7--7---------------|
|5-----3---------|7----------------|7------------------| X2
|3---------------|-----------------|5------------------|
|A | |
Shakey threw a party that lasted all night
|D | |
Everybody drank a lot of something nice There was an
|E |E |
old fashioned band of married men
|E |F#m | |
Looking up to me for encouragement - it was so-so
The ladies looked bad but the music was sad (As above)
No one took their eyes off Lorraine
She shimmered and she strolled like a Chicago moll
Her feathers looked better and better - it was so-so
|D |A |
Yeah! It was time to unfreeze When the
|B |D |
Reverend Alabaster danced on his knees
|D |A |
Slam! So it wasn't a game
|E | A D |
Cracking all the mirrors in shame Watch that
|G | G D |
man! Oh honey, Watch that
|C | |
man Well he
|D |C |
talks like a jerk but he could eat you with a fork and
|G | A D |
spoon Watch that
|G | G D |
man! Oh honey, watch that
|C | |
man He
|D |C |
walks like a jerk But he's only taking care of the
|B | |C |
room Must be in tune.....
back to intro then as above for next verse
Outro: Fade out with G and C as in intro with Mick bending
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|-----------------8----8--8-8-
|7b-7b-7b-etc--7b---7b---7-7--
|-----------------------------
|-----------------------------
|-----------------------------
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Aladdin Sane
Bm A C B A Bm
|2-2-2-2-2------0----------2------0---------2---------------2------------------
|2-3-3-3--5-3---0-2-2-2-0-2-5-2-1-0-1-1-1-1---5-3---2-4-4-4--5-3---------------
|4-4-4-4------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------0-0-0-0-0-------4-4-4-4-4-----2-4-4-2-4-4-2-4
|4-4-4-4--------2-2-2-2-2-2-------2-2-2-2-2---------4-4-4-4-----2-----2-----2--
|---------------------------------3-3-3-3-3------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chords as above
|Bm | |A |
Watching him dash away Swinging an old bouquet - dead roses
Passionate bright young things Takes him away to war - don't fake it
|C | |B |
Saki and strange divine Uh-hu-hu-uh-hu-uh, you'll make it
Sadden glissando strings Uh-hu-hu-uh-hu-uh, you'll make it
|A | |
Gm F Gm F Gm F
|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----3-------1---|----3-------1---|----3-------1---|
|----3-------2---|----3-------2---|----3-------2---|
|----5-------3---|----5-------3---|----5-------3---|
|5-5-----3-3-----|5-5-----3-3-----|5-5-----3-3-----|
|3-3-----1-1-----|3-3-----1-1-----|3-3-----1-1-----|
Who.................will Aladdin Sane?
A G A F
|-------------------------|------------------------|
|----5-------------3------|----5--------------1----|
|----6-------------4------|----6--------------2----|
|----7-------------5------|----7--------------3----|
|7-7-----------5-5--------|7-7------------3-3------|
|5-5-----------3-3--------|5-5------------1-1------|
Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise
Bass plays A & G during the solo |A---A-G---G-A---A-G---G etc
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Drive In Saturday
Fade in 12/8 time from E with triplet feel strum. Let me
|A |F#m |
put my arms around your head, gee it's hot let's go to bed
|E6 | |
Don't forget to turn on the light don't laugh babe it'll be alright
|A |F#m |
Pour me out another please I'll ring and see if your friends are home
|E6 |E |
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome can lend us a book we can read up alone and
|D |A7 |
try to get it on like once before When
|D |A F#m |
people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored like the video films we
|B |
saw His
|C D G |G7 E7 Am Am/G |
name was always Buddy and he'd shrug and ask to stay And she'd
|D/F# G |C G/B D |
sigh like Twig the wonder kid and turn her face away She's un
|C D G |G7 E7 Am Am/G |
certain if she likes him though she knows she really loves him It's a
|D G |C G/B Am C/G
crash course for the ravers, it's a dri......ve.........in Satur |
|D/F# D/E C G/B |Am C/G D/F# D/E |
day....................
|D D/C |
Outro
|C C/B Am C/G |D/F# D/E D D |
dri......ve.........in Saturday It's a
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Panic In Detriot
Intro(sounds better played at 7th fret with no thirds)
B G A
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|4-4-4--x-4-4---4/6-6-6--x-6-6---|
|4-4-4--x-5-5---5/7-7-7--x-7-7---|repeat
|2-2-2--x-5-5---5/7-7-7--x-7-7---|
|---------3-3---3/5-5-5--x-5-5---|
D E
|------------------------------------|
|7-------------------9----9-9--9-----|
|7-7-5-4-------------9----9-9--9-----|
|7-------7-5-4---4---9----9-9--9-----|
|5-------------7---5/7----7-7--7-----|
|------------------------------------|
He looked... Drove a diesel van
|D |E
|
He looked a lot like Che Guevara drove a diesel van
Kept his gun in quiet seclusion such a humble man
|G A |G A
|
The only survivor of the National People's Gang
D C |D C
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|7------------5----------------------------------------------|
|7------------5---5br-------------------------------5br------|
|7------------5/7-------7p5-7~------------------5-7-------7--|
|5------------3----------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
Panic in Detroit I asked for an autograph
|D G |A |
He wanted to stay home I wish someone would phone
|D (verse riff) |E |
Panic in Detroit
|D |C G |
Putting on some clothes I made my way to school ooh ooh
|Bm C |G |
and found my teacher crouching in his overalls
|D |C G |
I screamed and ran to smash my favorite slot machine ooh ooh
|Bm C |D |
and jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights
C D Bm
|-------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------3--|
|5/7\5~------2/4\2~-------4/5b~\4~-4--|intro riff
|----------------------------slight---|
|----------------------------bend-----|
|-------------------------------------|
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Cracked Actor
E E F G G
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|----0.-------0.---(x2)-then-play this twice last time end with B--------------
|----1.-------1.--1------------------------------------------------------------
|2---2.---2-2-2.--2----------------2-------------3-------------5-------------5-
|2--------2-2-----2----2-2-4---2---2-3-3-5---3---3-5---7---5---5-5-5-7---5---5-
|0--------0-0-----0----0-0-0---0-----1-1-1---1-----3---3---3-----3-3-3---3-----
(B)I've come
|F |Am |
on a few years from my Hollywood Highs The
|E |D |
best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had I'm
|F |Am |
stiff on my legend the films that I made For-
|E | |
-get that I'm fifty cause you just got paid
(The A and the F#7 in the chorus have suspends first and pulled off)
|Bm |A |
Crack, baby, crack show me your real
|G |F#7 |
Smack, baby, smack is that all that you feel
|Bm |A |
Suck, baby, suck give me your head
|G |F#7 |
Before you start professing ... knocking me dead
|E (as in intro)
oh stay
Time
|Em | | | |
Time He's waiting in the wings He speaks of senseless things..
Time He flexes like a whore Falls wanking to the floor...
|F | |C | |
.. His script is you and me Boy
.. His trick is you and me Boy
|Ddim | |Dm |C C/E |
Time In quaaludes and red wine demanding Billy
|F | |D | |
Dolls and other friends of mine Take your time
|C |C C C/B |Am |Am/G |
The sniper in the brain, regurgitating
|F |D/F# |G | F/G |
drain Incestuous and vain, and many other
|C |C C C/B |Am |Am/G |
last names Ooh I look at my watch it says 9:25 and I think
|F |D/F# |G | F/G |
Oh God I'm still alive We
|C |C C C/B |Am |Am/G |
should be on by now We should be on by
|F |D/F# |G | |
now la la la laa
|Em | | | |
You are not a victim You just scream with boredom
Mick's solo
|F | |C | |
.. You are not evicting time
|Ddim | |Dm |C C/E |
Chimes Goddamn you're looking old you'll freeze and catch a
|F | |D | |
cold cause you left your coat behind Take your time
|C |C C C/B |Am |Am/G |
Breaking up is hard, but keeping dark is
|F |D/F# |G | F/G |
hateful I had so many dreams, I had so many
|C |C C C/B |Am |Am/G |
breakthroughs but you my love were kind, but love has left you
|F |D/F# |G | F/G |
dreamless The door to dreams was closed your path was real
|C |C C C/B |Am |Am/G |
& dreamless Perhaps you're smiling now, smiling through this darkness
|F |D/F# |G | |
darkness But all I have to give is guilt for dreaming
Solo over the above pattern
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Prettiest Star
F F/C Dm Dm/A D#flat 5
------|----------------------8-------|----------------------8-------|
5-6-8-|10~--8-10~-------8-10---10-88-10~---8-10~-------8-10---10-88-|
------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
A C
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|10\8---6-6-8br~------66-8-8-66-|8~---8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8----------|
|-------------------------------|-----9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9----------|
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|F F/C |Dm Dm/A D#flat 5 |
Cold fire you've got everything but cold fire you will be my rest and
So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried It's a trick to make you
|A |C |
peace child I moved up to take a place near you
you see wide It can all but break your heart in pieces
|Bb |Am |Eb |
Staying back in your memory Are the movies in the
|F |Gm |Dm |
past How you moved is all it takes
|C |Bb |A |
To sing a song of when I loved The Prettiest Star
Solo as for intro but second time slide up an octave and finish on a high C
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Jean Genie
intro strum away on E and slide down
E
|0-----|
|0-----|
|13----|
|14----|
|14----|
|0-----|
E
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------0-2-0-|
|2---2---2--0-2-0-|
|2---2---2----0---|
|0---0---0--------|
|E |E |
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers and
Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters
Talking bout Monroe and walking on Snow White
New York's a go-go when everything tastes right
Poor little Greenie ooh ooh
B
|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|-------------------|
|9---9---11--9---|9-11-9-12\11~------|
|7---7---7---7---|7-7--7-7--7--------|
Forget that one
The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks
He's outrageous he screams and he bawls
Jean Genie let yourself go..........
A
|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|5/7p5-8-7~--8\----|
|----------------|------------------|
|----------7-----|----x-7-----------|
|7---9---9-7-----|7-7-x-7-9---------|
|5---5---5-------|5-5-----5---------|
go....
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Lady Grinning Soul
Based on Old Man Kensey's (jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu)
With a few changes from Guy Smith
The intro piano plays: F#m, G, A, G, A, F#m
F#m
She'll come, she'll go
G
She'll lay belief on you
A
Skin sweet with musky oil
G#m B
The lady from another grinning soul
F#m
Cologne she'll wear
G
Silver and Americard
A
She'll drive a beetle car
G#m B
And beat you down at cool Canasta
Bb Ebm B
And when the clothes are strewn
Bb B
Don't be afraid of the room
C#
Touch the fullness of her breast
E
Feel the love of her caress
G#m F#m
She will be your living end
F#m, G, A, G#m, B
She'll come she'll go
She'll lay belief on you
But she won't stake her life on you
How can life become point of view
And when the clothes are strewn
Don't be afraid of the room
Touch the fullness of her breast
Feel the love of her caress
She will be your living end
She will be your living end
As Bowie is singing "She will be your living end" the chords are
G#m, G, G#m, B, G#m, G, G#m, B until the song fades out.
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