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From: Winston Campbell
Hang On To Yourself
(words & music by David Bowie)
This song is featured off of Bowie~s -The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
and the Spiders From Mars- album. It is quite simple and fun to play as
are most of Bowie~s songs. Before I write down the chords, I must explain
that the chords G5* and B5* are played respectively:
G5*
E –3-3–3-3–3-3–3-3–3-3-3–|
B –3-3–3-3–3-3–3-3–3-3-3–| (of course, it would be auspicious to
G –0-0–0-0–0-0–0-0–0-0-0–| accent the bass notes to give it that
D –0-0–0-0–0-0–0-0–0-0-0–| cool song that the song cannot live
A –x-x–x-x–x-x–x-x–x-x-x–| without. -h- stands for hammer-on)
E –2h3–3-3–2h3–3-3–2h3-3–|
B5*
E —————————-|
B —————————-|
G –4-4–4-4–4-4–4-4–4-4-4-| (this time instead of hammering on, it
D –4-4–4-4–4-4–4-4–4-4-4-| would be better to slide from the first
A –1s2–2-2–1s2–2-2–1s2-2-| fret to the second playing B5*)
E —————————-|
The song with the chords are:
D-C-G5*
D-C-G5*
F#m A
Well she is a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the show tonight
Bm F#5-A5-B5*
Praying to the light machine
F#m A
She wants my honey not my money she~s a funky-thigh collector
Bm F#5-A5-B5*
Laying on electric dreams
C D C D
So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
C D C
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
A
You better hang on to yourself
D-C-G5*
D-C-G5*
F#m A
We can~t dance, we don~t talk much, we just ball and play
Bm F#5-A5-B5*
But then we move like tigers on vaseline
F#m A
Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
Bm F#5-A5-B5*
You~re the blessed, we~re the spiders from Mars
C D C D
So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
C D C
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
A
You better hang on to yourself
D-C-G5*
D-C-G5*
Solo Chords: A D A D
C D C D
So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
C D C
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
A
You better hang on to yourself
(and the song ends…or whatever…)
The Chords are:
E A D G B E
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D x x 0 2 3 2
C x 3 2 0 1 0
F#m 2 4 4 2 2 x
A x 0 2 2 2 x
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2
F#5 2 4 4 x x x
A5 x 0 2 2 x x
(Note that the lyrics for this song is not the one from the Rykodisc
release of -The Man Who Sold The World-, this is the original)
