David Bowie – Silly Boy Blue (Guitar)

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Chords

D                      A
Mountains of Lhasa are feeling the rain

D                      A       
People are walking the Botella lanes

E                  D 
Preacher takes the school

E                D
One boy breaks a rule

          A                         G     A
Silly Boy Blue, ooo blue, Silly Boy Blue

D                       A
Yak butter statues that melt in the sun

D                       A
Cannot dissolve all the work you've not done

E                D
A chela likes to feel

         E                 D
That his overself pays the bill

          A     D   A             D              G     A
Silly Boy Blue, ooo blue, ooo ooo oooo Silly Boy Blue

(G) F#m                G
You wish and wish, and wish again

       F#m              G
You've tried so hard to fly

E                       A
You'll never leave your body now

E                     G          A
You've got to wait to diiiiiiiiiiiie
(key change, bass leads walkdown - A G F#)
E                     B
La la la la la la la, la la la la

E                     B
La la la la la la la, la la la la

F#              E
La la la la la, La

F#              E
La la la la la, La

          B     E   B             E              A     B
Silly Boy Blue, ooo blue, ooo ooo oooo Silly Boy Blue

E                        B
Child of Tibet, you're a gift from the sun

E                B
Reincarnation of one better man

    F#               E
The homeward road is long

       F#                    E
You've left your prayers and song

          B     E   B             E              B
Silly Boy Blue, ooo blue, ooo ooo oooo Silly Boy Blue
etc.