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Bowie David - Hang On To Your Self guitar chord

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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

     -----------

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)

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