David Bowie – Id Rather Be High (Guitar)

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Chords

A x4 D x2 A x2
Bm
Nobokov is sun-licked now

D
Upon the beach at Gruenwald

Bm
Brilliant and naked just

     G
The way that authors looks
A
Bm
Clare and Lady Manners drink

D
Until the other cows go home

Bm
Gossip till their lips are bleeding

G
Politics and all
A
               Em  A
I'd rather be high

A               Em    A              
I'd rather be flying

               Dm
I'd rather be dead

              F#m
Or out of my head

                     Dm                       D
Than training these guns on those men in the sand

D                  
I'd rather be high
A
    Bm
The Thames was black, the tower dark

D
I flew to Cairo, find my regiment

Bm
City's full of generals

     G
And generals full of shit
A
  Bm
I stumble to the graveyard and I

D
Lay down by my parents, whisper

Bm
Just remember duckies

G
Everybody gets got
A
               Em  A
I'd rather be high

               Em    A
I'd rather be flying

               Dm
I'd rather be dead

              F#m
Or out of my head

                     Dm                       D
Than training these guns of those men in the sand

               A
I'd rather be high

      D                               A
I'm seventeen and my looks can prove it

     D                         A
I'm so afraid that I will lose it

    E                                 
I'd rather smoke and phone my ex

    C7
Be pleading for some teenage sex

A
Yeah

               Em  A
I'd rather be high

                Em   A
I'd rather be flying

               Dm
I'd rather be dead

              F#m
Or out of my head

                     Dm                     D
Than training these guns on the men in the sand

               A
I'd rather be high