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 * and * are played respectively:
*
--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-3--|
--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-3--| (of course, it would be auspicious to
--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-0--| accent the bass notes to give it that
--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-0--| cool song that the song cannot live
--x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x-x--| without. -h- stands for hammer-on)
--2h3--3-3--2h3--3-3--2h3-3--|
*
--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4-4-| (this time instead of hammering on, it
--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4--4-4-4-| would be better to slide from the first
--1s2--2-2--1s2--2-2--1s2-2-| fret to the second playing *)
The song with the chords are:
--*
--*
Well she is a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the show tonight
F#5-A5-*
Praying to the light machine
She wants my honey not my money she~s a funky-thigh collector
F#5-A5-*
Laying on electric dreams
So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself
--*
--*
We can~t dance, we don~t talk much, we just ball and play
F#5-A5-*
But then we move like tigers on vaseline
Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
F#5-A5-*
You~re the blessed, we~re the spiders from Mars
So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself
--*
--*
Solo Chords:
So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself
(and the song ends...or whatever...)
The Chords are:
x x 0 2 3 2
x 3 2 0 1 0
2 4 4 2 2 x
x 0 2 2 2 x
x 2 4 4 3 2
2 4 4 x x x
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)