David Bowie
Life On Mars?
Hunky Dory (1971)

F      F/E
It's a God-awful small affair 
F/E♭   D7
To the girl with the mousy hair  
Gm      Gm/F
But her mummy is yelling no
C       C7
And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen 
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen

  A♭      Ab+
  But the film is a saddening bore
  Ab6       A♭7
  For she's lived it ten times or more
  D♭        Db+
  She could spit in the eyes of fools
  Db6     D♭7
  As they ask her to focus on

    B♭      E♭
    Sailors fighting in the dance hall
    Gm     Gm/F♯                 F
    Oh man look at those cavemen go
    Fm                 Cm7    E♭m7
    It's the freakiest show - take a look at the
    
    Lawman beating up the wrong guy
    Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
    He's in the best selling show - is there life on

    Gm     Gm/F♯  Gm/F  C/E
    Mars?

F  F♯°  Gm  G♯°  Am  B♭  B♭m  w/ solo

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
Cause Lennon's on sale again

See the mice in their million hoards 
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Brittannia is out of bounds 
To my mother my dog and clowns

  But the film is a saddening bore
  Cause I wrote it ten times or more
  It's about to be writ again
  As I ask you to focus on

    Refrain

F  F♯°  Gm  B♭  B♭  B♭  E♭  E♭m  (ral.)  B♭  w/ solo