Tabs

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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: Five Years
By:   David Bowie

[intro:]   {drums}

[verse: 1]
G                            
  Pushing through the market square
Em
  So many mothers sighing
A                
  News had just come over
C
  We had five years left to cry in

[verse: 2] 
G                           
  News guy wept and told us
Em
Earth was really dying
A                             
  Cried so much his face was wet
        C
Then I knew he was not lying

[verse: 3] 
            G
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
      Em
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
A
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
           C
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

[bridge:] 
                   Am         {A B C}  C 
 And all the fat-skinny people
                         Am   {A B C}  C  {bass walk down C B A G }
 and all the tall-short people
                      G            C
 and all the nobody people
                       D7
 and all the somebody people
                                  Am       C  {bass walk down C B A G }
 I never thought I'd need so many people
 

[verse: 4] 
G                           
  A girl my age went off her head
Em
  Hit some tiny children
A                      
  If the black hadn't a-pulled her off
     C
 I think she would have killed them

[verse: 5] 
G                                      
  A soldier with a broken arm
Em
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A                                     
  A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
       C
And a queer threw up at the sight of that


[verse: 6] 
G                                  
  I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor
Em
  Drinking milk shakes cold and long
A                                        
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
C
Don't think You knew you were in this song

[verse: 7]  
            G
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
        Em
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
      A
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
   C
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk


[chorus:] 
           G
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Em
Five years, what a surprise
            A
 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got

[chorus:]
           G
We've got five years, what a surprise
Em
Five years, stuck on my eyes
            A
 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got

[chorus:]
           G
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Em
Five years, what a surprise
            A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got

[chorus:]
           G
We've got five years, what a surprise
Em
Five years, stuck on my eyes
           A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got

[coda:]
G
Five years
Em
Five years
A
Five years
C          {bass walk down C B A G }
Five years 
G    
Five years
Em
A
C          {bass walk down C B A G }
G  {let ring}   {drums}
  


chords:

A       002220  or 577655
C       032010  or 335553
D7      x00212  or 557575
Em      022000  or 779987
G       320003  or 355433