David Bowie – The Bewlay Brothers (Guitar Intro)

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The Bewlay Brothers Version Prebebo From the album Hunky Dory 1971 Can be a song for 12 strings guitar and people who like struming. There are 2 acoustics guitars in the original. Sometimes a lead guitar with riff. This tab do not propose the lead guitar at the end of the verses and after chorus. *********************************** h Hammer-on ***********************************
[Intro mesures]
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D D Em A7
[Verse Mesures]
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  D           D           Em          A7
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D D Em A7 D D
[Pre Chorus Mesures]
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Em A7
[Chorus Mesures]In the 3st chorus lasts Em and A7 are not. It starts with bridge in Bm.
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   Bm          Bm          A         A           G           G
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   F#7         F#4         Asus2     Asus2       G           G     G/F#
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Em Em C C D D Em A7
[Bridge mesures]
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Bm C F Bm Bm C F
[Outro mesures]
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Bm Bm F F
[Arpegi] substitute intro strum
    D                   D                   Em                 A7
e |-2---------2------||-2---------2------||------------------||------------------|
b |-3-----3-----3----||-3-----3-----3----||------------------||-2---------2------|
g |-2---2---2-----2--||-2---2---2-----2--||-0---------0------||-0-----0-----0----|
d |-0-0--------------||-0-0--------------||-2-----2-----2----||-2---2---2-----2--|
a |------------------||------------------||-2---2---2-----2--||-0-0--------------|
E |------------------||------------------||-0-0--------------||------------------|

[Riff 1] after 3 mesures struming in intro
e |----------------------------------------|
b |----------------------------------------|
g |----------0h2--2--0---------------------|
d |--4----4-------------4--2--0----0h2--2--|
a |----------------------------------------|
E |----------------------------------------|

[Outro riff]
   Bm                          F
e |--------------------------||--------------------------|
b |-----7---7-----7----7-----||-----6---6-----6----6-----|
g |---7---7---7-----7----7---||---5---5---5-----5----5---|
d |-9-----------9-----9----9-||-7-----------7-----7----7-|
a |--------------------------||--------------------------|
E |--------------------------||--------------------------|
************************************************************************************************* [Intro]
 D       D       Em      A7
Intro strumed and instrumental.
[Verse 1]
           D
And so the story goes, they wore the clothes,

     D                                   Em
They said the things, to make it seem: improbable.

  A7               D                         D     Em       A7
... The whale of a lie, like they hope it was.  [Riff 1]

        D                            D
And the goodmen, tomorrow, had their feet in the wallow,

          Em
And their heads of brawn were nicer shorn,

    A7                                   D                   D    
And how they bought their positions with saccharin and trust.

        Em                       A7           D      D
And the world was asleep, to our latent fuss. [Instrumental]
[Pre Chorus 1]
Em                                              A7
Sighing they swirl through the streets like the crust of the sun;
[Chorus 1]
           Bm      Bm         A               A
The Bewlay Brothers... In our wings that bark...

         G             G            F#7
Flashing teeth of brass... Standing tall in the dark...

F#4                Asus2    Asus2                      G
Oh!... And we were gone!... Hanging out with your dwarf-men...

G          G/F#   Em     Em                    C      C    D     D     Em   A7
We were so turned on!... By your lack of conclu-sions...(Let strings ring in C and go again struming D)
[Verse 2]
      D
Well, I was stone, and he was wax,

   D                                Em
So he could scream and still relax: Unbelievable.

 A7                             D              D       Em      A7
... And we frightened the small children away. [Riff 1]

        D
And our talk was old and dust, would flow,

        D                                  Em
Thru our veins and lo! It was midnight back-at the kitchen door.

 A7                               D             D
... Like the grim face on the cathedral floor.

 Em                             A7                     D       D
... And the solid book we wrote cannot be found today. [Instrumental]
[Pre Chorus 2]
Em                                           A7
  And it was stalking time for the moonboys;...
[Chorus 2]
           Bm       Bm          A                A
The Bewlay Brothers... With our backs on the arch...

       G                  G              F#7
In the Devil may be here... But he can't sing about that...

F#4                Asus2 Asus2        G
Oh!... And we were gone!... Real cool traders

 G             G/F#   Em    Em                   C      C    D      D      Em      A7
... We were so turned on!... You thought we were fakers!...(Let strings ring in C and go again struming D)
[Verse 3]
        D
Now the dress is hung, the ticket pawned,

    D                                  Em
The factor max that proved the fact is melted down.

                 A7           D       D    Em    A7
And woven on the edging of my pillow. [Riff 1]

       D
Now my brother lays, upon the rocks,

   D                                      Em
He could be dead, he could be not, and he could be you.

     A7                                  D           D7
He's chameleon, comedian, corinthian and caricature.

  Em                       A7                D       D
... Shooting up pie in the sky... The Bewlay Brothers...[Instrumental]
[Pre Chorus 3]
       Em                A7
In the feeble and bad;...
[Chorus 3]
        Bm       Bm        A               A
Bewlay- Brothers... In the blessed and cold...

       G                                  F#7
In the crutch-hungry dark... Was where we flayed our mark...

F#4                Asus2                  G
Oh!... And we were gone!... Kings of obli-vi-on...

           G/F#   Em                           C       C
We were so turned on!... In the mind-warp pavi-li-on...(Let string ring in C and bridge)
[Bridge]
Bm               C                F                 Bm
Lay me place and bake me pie I'm  star-ving for me gra-vy!

Bm                 C                F                 Bm        
Leave my shoes and door un-locked I might just slip a-way, Hey!... [Outro riff]
(Here starts outro) [Outro]
Bm               F    F                    Bm
... Just for the day, Hey!... Please come away, Hey!

Bm               F    F                    Bm
... Just for the day, Hey!... Please Come away, Hey!

Bm               F    F                    Bm
... Please come away, Hey!... Just for the day!

Bm               F    F                Bm
... Please come away!... Please come away!

Bm               F    F               Bm         Bm       F         F
... Please come away!... Please come away!...   Away!...  Away!...  Hey!