LIFE ON MARS?

LIFE ON MARS? from Hunky Dory

F	EADGBE 133211	Am	EADGBE X02210	F7	EADGBE XX121X	Gm7	EADGBE 353333	Ebm7	EADGBE X68676
C	EADGBE X32010	Bb	EADGBE X13331	Gm	EADGBE 355333	Ab7	EADGBE 464544	F#dim	EADGBE XX2212
D	EADGBE XX0232	Eb	EADGBE X68886	C7	EADGBE X32310	Cm7	EADGBE X35343	Ab#5	EADGBE XX211X
B	EADGBE X24442	Fm	EADGBE 133111	Ab	EADGBE XX111X	Ebm	EADGBE X68876	G#dim	EADGBE XX4434
A	EADGBE X02220	Db	EADGBE X46664	F/E	EADGBE XX221X	Bbm	EADGBE X13321	F#aug5	EADGBE XX4332
								Em7dim5	EADGBE 010030

F      F/E                    F7
It's a God awful small affair 
       D
To the girl with the mousy hair  
Gm      Gm7
But her mummy is yelling no
C       C7                    F
And her daddy has told her to go
        F/E                     F7
But her friend is nowhere to be seen 
        D
Now she walks through her sunken dream
Gm     Gm7
To the seat with the clearest view
C         C7
And she's hooked to the silver screen
Ab      Ab#5
But the film is a saddening bore
Fm        Ab7
For she's lived it ten times or more
Db        A
She could spit in the eyes of fools
Bb      B
As they ask her to focus on


CHORUS 1:
Bb      Eb
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm     F#aug5                F
Oh man look at those cavemen go
Fm                 Cm7
It's the freakiest show
Ebm7               Bb     Eb
Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy
Gm     F#aug5                   F
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
Fm                       Cm7
He's in the best selling show
Ebm7             Gm    F#aug5  Bb  Em7dim5
Is there life on mars?


SOLO:  F  F#dim  Gm  G#dim  Am  Bb  Bbm


F        F/E                   F7
It's on Americas tortured brow
            D                        Gm
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
        Gm7                          C
Now the workers have struck for fame
    C7
Cos Lennon's on sale again
F       F/E                          F7
See the mice in their million hoards 
      D                       Gm
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
         Gm7                     C
Rule Brittannia is out of bounds 
      C7
To my mother my dog and clowns
Ab      Ab#5
But the film is a saddening bore
Fm      Ab7
Cause I wrote it ten times or more
Db    A       
It's about to be writ again
Bb      B
As they ask her to focus on


CHORUS 2:
Bb      Eb
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Gm     F#aug5                F
Oh man look at those cavemen go
Fm                 Cm7
It's the freakiest show
Ebm7               Bb     Eb
Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy
Gm     F#aug5                   F
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
Fm                       Cm7
He's in the best selling show
Ebm7             Gm    F#aug5  Bb  Em7dim5
Is there life on mars?


OUTRO:  F  F#dim  Gm  Bb  Bb  Bb  Eb  Ebm  Bb

Notes:

This is very much a piano song and is quite difficult to get a good sounding version on guitar. Pay careful attention to the chord shapes at the top. It sounds awful if the wrong strings ring out. For the first four chords of every verse, F F/E F7 D, try to only play the B, G and D strings of the guitar. Picking is the best way to get it across nice and subtle. For the chorus you may want to play the Bb up at the 6th fret so it's easier to get to the Eb:

Bb	EADGBE 688766

Solo:

             F  F#dim Gm G#dim Am Bb  Bbm        F
        E------8---------7P4----78-78-8P6-----------
        B---68B-8B-8B68-----6------------9P68P68910-
        G-57-----------------7-5--5-----------------
        D-------------------------------------------
        A-------------------------------------------
        E-------------------------------------------

Outro:

                   F  F#dim      Gm     Bb    Eb Ebm Bb
        E----------------------------------------------
        B---68B868-8B-----10------------3-3-3-8--7---3-
        G-57----------799B--9B97-5P3-3/-3-3-3-8--8---3-
        D---------------------------5---3-3-3-8--8---3-
        A-------------------------------1-1-1-6--6---1-
        E----------------------------------------------

If you have any trouble reading or understanding the guitar chords or the tab you can click here for a rough guide!