David Bowie – Janine (Guitar)

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[Intro] D C G C D x3 [Verse 1]
        D                F#m               G
Oh my love, Janine, I'm helpless for your smile

E              E7         A          G                D
Like a Polish wanderer I travel ever onwards to your land

             A                G                    F#m
And were it not just for the jewels I'd close your hand
[Verse 2]
      D                F#m            G
Your strange demand to 'collocate' my mind

E              E7                 A
Scares me into gloom, you're too intense

             G                D
I'll have to keep you in your place

          A                  G                  F#m
I've no defence, I've got to keep my veil on my face
[Chorus]
 D       D/C           G        C      G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well

      C               G                  F             C
But I've got things inside my head that even I can't face

  D      D/C           G       C         G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls

     C               G
But if you take an axe to me

       F            C
you'll kill another man

           D   C   G C D   D  C  G C D
Not me at all
[Verse 3]
       D              F#m            G
You're fey, Janine, a tripper to the last

E                  E7             A
But if I catch you standing on my toes

            G                  D
I'll have a right to shout you down

             A               G                       F#m
For you're a lazy stream, in which my thoughts would drown
[Verse 4]
   D             F#m              G
So stay, Janine, and we can glide along

E                          E7
I've caught your wings for laughs

        A                    G                 D
I'm not obliged to read your statements of the year

             A               G            F#m
So take your glasses off and don't act so sincere
[Chorus]
 D       D/C           G        C      G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well

      C               G                  F             C
But I've got things inside my head that even I can't face

  D      D/C           G       C         G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls

     C               G
But if you take an axe to me

       F            C
you'll kill another man

           D   C   G C D   D  C  G C D
Not me at all
D C G C D (repeat and ad lib)