Tuning: E A D G B E

G - 320003 G/F# - 220003 Em - 022000 A5 - x02000 A - x02220 A/C# - x42220 C/G - 332010 Am - x02210 Am/C - x32210 D7 - xx0212 [Verse]

^G Pushing through the market square,^G/F# ^Em so many mothers sighing ^A5 ^A News had just come over, ^A/C# ^C/G we had five years left to cry in ^G News guy wept and told us, ^G/F# ^Em earth was really dying ^A5 ^ACried so much his face was wet, ^A/C# ^C/G then I knew he was not lying I^G heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies ^G/F# I^Em saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s ^A5 M^Ay brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare ^A/C# I^C/G had to cram so many things to store everything in there

[Bridge] walk from a, b to c on a string

And all the fat^Am-skinny people, ^Am/C ^C/G and all the tall-short p^Ameople ^Am/C ^C/G And all the nobody p^Geople, ^C/G and all the somebody p^D7eople I never thought I'd need so many ^Ampeople

[Verse]

^G A girl my age went off her head, ^G/F# ^Em hit some tiny children ^A5 ^A If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, ^A/C# ^C/G I think she would have killed them ^G A soldier with a broken arm, ^G/F# ^Em fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac ^A5 ^A A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, ^A/C# ^C/G and a queer threw up at the sight of that ^G I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, ^G/F# ^Em drinking milk shakes cold and long ^A5 ^A Smiling and waving and looking so fine, ^A/C# ^C/G don't think you knew you were in this song ^G And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor^G/F# ^Em And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there ^A5 ^A Your face, your race, the way that you talk^A/C# ^C/G I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

[Outro]

^G We've got five years, stuck on my eyes ^G/F# ^Em Five years, what a surprise ^A5 ^A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot ^A/C# ^C/G Five years, that's all we've got ^G We've got five years, what a surprise ^G/F# ^Em Five years, stuck on my eyes ^A5 ^A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot ^A/C# ^C/G Five years, that's all we've got ^G We've got five years, stuck on my eyes ^G/F# ^Em Five years, what a surprise ^A5 ^A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot ^A/C# ^C/G Five years, that's all we've got ^G We've got five years, what a surprise ^G/F# ^Em Five years, stuck on my eyes ^A5 ^A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot ^A/C# ^C/G Five years, that's all we've got ^G Five years ^G/F# ^Em Five years ^A5 ^A Five years ^A/C# ^C/G Five years G G/F# Em A5 A A/C# C/G G

David Bowie - Five years