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Song: Blue Jean Artist: David Bowie URL’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jean; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_%28David_Bowie_album%29 Style: Rock’n’Roll Tuning: Standard INTRO:[Staccato chords] |C |G | VERSE 1:[Up-tempo with slow struck snare]
DBlue Jean-I just met me a girl named Blue Jean, Blue Jean-she got a camouflaged face and no money. G
 Remember they always let you down when you need 'em, Oh, Blue Jean - is heaven any sweeter than DBlue Jean.
PRE-CHORUS 1:[Staccato chords, at the end of each line] C A D
 She got a police bike, C G A
 She got a turned up nose. CHORUS 1:[Sax flourish intro, with vibes accent]
ASometimes I feel like [F#mOh, the whole human race], A F#m
 Jazzin' for Blue Jean [Oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue]. A F#m
 Blue Jean can send me [Oh, somebody send me], A F#m C G
 Somebody send me [Oh, somebody send me].
VERSE 2:
DOne day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter, 
One day I'm gonna get that faculty together. G
 Remember that everybody has to wait in line, D
 Blue Jean-look out world you know I've got mine.
PRE-CHORUS 2:[Staccato chords, at the end of each line] C A D
 She got Latin roots, C G A
 She got everything. CHORUS 2:
ASometimes I feel like [F#mOh, the whole human race], A F#m
 Jazzin' for Blue Jean [Oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue]. A
Blue Jean can send me F#m[Oh, somebody send me], A
Somebody send me F#m[Oh, somebody send me]C. G
BRIDGE 1: |G |G | CHORUS 3:
ASometimes I feel like [F#mOh, the whole human race], A F#m
 Jazzin' for Blue Jean [Oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue]. A F#m
 Blue Jean can send me [Oh, somebody send me], ASomebody send me [F#mOh, somebody send me]. A
REFRAIN 1:
ASomebody, somebody[F#mOh, somebody send me], ASomebody send me [F#mOh, somebody send me].
CODA:[Staccato] |C G |C G | |E |[Hold & Sustain] [End] NOTES: 1. “…Interviewed in 1987 and asked to compare a track like "Time Will Crawl" to "Blue Jean," Bowie said "'Blue Jean' is a piece of sexist rock 'n roll. [laughs] It's about picking up birds. It's not very cerebral, that piece. …” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jean 2. “…A basic workout in D major [the slight tension in the early bars of each verse is owed to a wavering between D and a D suspended fourth], “Blue Jean”‘s chorus moves between the dominant, A major, and the mediant, F# minor—so the song is mainly keeping to the basic tones of the D chord [D, F#, A]; there are no real surprises except swapping in a natural C [on “police bike”] for a sharp one. Two verses, three choruses, no bridges or solos save a four-bar Alomar riffing transition. “Blue Jean” ends just when you get sick of it. …” https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/blue-jean/ 3. In keeping with Carlos Alomar's textured guitar style, experiment in the VERSES with variations of D and G, with alternating D with D3add4 [XX0030]and G with Em7 [020003 or 020033]. Also, try in the PRE-CHORUS, alternating the C with C/E [XX2010].