David Bowie – An Oddity On Mars (Ukulele)

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Chords

Arranged for a ukulele medley.
G      G/F#            Dm/F          E7                  Am
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair

         Am/G             D/F#                               G
But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go

          G/F#                  Dm/F
But her friend is nowhere to be seen

        E7                       Am
as she walks through her sunken dream

        Am/G                  D/F#
To the seat with the clearest view

                                Bb
and she's hooked to the silver screen

          Bb+                Gm
But the film is a saddening bore

            Ab                   Eb
For she's lived it ten times or more

           G7                   Cm          Eb
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on
CHORUS:
  C         F                   G
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall

 Am      Fm                    G  Gm                  Dm
Oh man! look at those cavemen go,    it's a freakest show

Fm                   C      F                    G
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy

Am       Fm                     G Gm                          Dm
Oh man!  Wonder if he'll ever know   he's in the best selling show

Fm                Am   C+  Am7  D7  F  Gsus4  D
Is there life on Mars?

D                       F#m  D                       F#m
Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom:

Bm        Bm7/A             E7
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

D                       F#m   D                             F#m
Ground control to Major Tom: Commencing countdown engine's on

Bm       Bm7/A          E7
Check ig-nition and may God's love be with you

D                               F#m                          G
This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade!

         Gm             D/F#                   G     
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear, 

         Gm                D/F#            G
now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

G                  G/F#    Dm/F          E7                  Am
It's on Amerika's tortured brow Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

        Am/G                    D/F#                            G
Now the workers have struck for fame Cause Lennon's on sale again

          G/F#                  Dm/F
See the mice in their million hordes

       E7                   Am
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads

       Am/G                D/F#
Rule Brittania is out of bounds

                           Bb
To my mother, my dog and clowns

          Bb+                Gm
But the film is a saddening bore

           Ab                 Eb
`Cause I wrote it ten times before

           G7            Cm       Eb
It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus 'cuz

C                               E7                             F
This is Major Tom to ground con-trol, I'm stepping through the door

        Fm              C/E           F   
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way 

        Fm              C/E         F
and the stars look very different today