David Bowie – Maid Of Bond Street (Guitar)

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From: toomey Available on any of a number of compilations of his early works, I have "London Boy."
E                    F#m        G
This girl is made of lipstick,  powder and paint,

C                       Am     F                G
Sees the pictures of herself,  every magazine on every shelf.

E                    F#m          G
This girl is Maid of Bond Street, hailing cabs,

C               Am       F                   G
Lunches with executives, gleaming teeth sip aperitifs

E              D
This girl is a lonely girl

E                     D
Takes the train from Paddington to Oxford Circus

E                        D
Buys the Daily News but passengers

      C                Am        F        G
Don't smile at her, oh no, don't smile at her.

E                    F#m            G
This girl is made of loneliness,  a broken heart

C                Am            F                        G
For the boy that she once knew doesn't want to know her anymore.

    E              D
And this girl is a lonely girl,

E                       D
Everything she wants is hers but she can't make it

E                       D
With the boy she really wants to be with

        C        Am   F       G
All the time, to love all the time.

E                   F#m   G
This boy is made of envy, jealosy

   C              Am        F                    G
He doesn't have a limosine, really wants to be a star himself.

    E          G            A       D               G
And this girl, her world is made of flashlights and film

G             A             D            G
Her cares are scraps on the cutting room floor

    G        C           F              G
And Maids of Bond Street ride 'round in chauffeured cars

G        C           F                G
Maids of Bond Street picture clothes, eyes of stars

G       C            F             G
Maids of Bond Street shouldn't have worldly cares

G       C            N.C.
Maids of Bond street shouldn't have love affairs
F C C C F G [Outro lick]
e|--5/6--5p3p0-------------3~~~------------|
B|--------------------3--------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
Ending on the G works, and I haven't figured out the last little bit. So there it is. [email protected]