Life on Mars Chords
by David Bowie
Life on Mars by David Bowie is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords E, E/Eb, Bm/D, C#7, F#m, F#m/E, B/Eb, G, Em, F, C, E7, Am, A, D, Dm, Bm, F#m7, B7, Esus4 and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
E E/Eb Bm/D C#7 F#m
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
F#m/E B/Eb E
But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
E/Eb Bm/D
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
C#7 F#m
As she walks through her sunken dream
F#m/E B/Eb
To the seat with the clearest view
G
And she's hooked to the silver screen
G Em
But the film is a saddening bore
F C
For she's lived it ten times or more
E7 Am C
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on
A D E
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
F#m Dm E Em Bm
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show
Dm A D E
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
F#m Dm E Em Bm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show
Dm F#m A F#m7 B7 D Esus4 B
Is there life on Mars?
E E/Eb Bm/D
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
C#7 F#m
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
F#m/E B/Eb
Now the workers have struck for fame
E
Cause Lennon's on sale again
E/Eb Bm/D
See the mice in their million hordes
C#7 F#m
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
F#m/E B/Eb
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
G
To my mother, my dog and clowns
G Em
But the film is a saddening bore
F C
Cause I wrote it ten times before
E7 Am
It's about to be writ again
C
As I ask you to focus on .... Chorus