27 Chords used in the song: D, D/C#, Am/C, B7, E, Em/D, A/C#, Em, F, F+, Dm, A#, D7, Gm, G, C, Cm, Am, G+, Em7, A7, Dsus4, A, AM, EM, DM, GM

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D
D/C#
Am/C
B7
E
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
Em/D
A/C#
D
But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
D/C#
Am/C
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
B7
Em
as she walks through her sunken dream
Em/D
A/C#
To the seat with the clearest view
F
and she's hooked to the silver screen
F+
Dm
But the film is a saddening bore
D
A#
For she's lived it ten times or more
D7
Gm
A#
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on
CHORUS:
G
C
D
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
Em
Cm
D
Dm
Am
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest showCm
G
C
D
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guyEm
Cm
D
Dm
Am
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling showCm
Em
G+
Em7
A7
C
Dsus4
A
Is there life on Mars?D
AM
It's on Amerika's tortured browB7
EM
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
EM
A
Now the workers have struck for fame
A
D
Cause Lennon's on sale again
D
AM
See the mice in their million hordes
B7
EM
>From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
EM
A
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
F
To my mother, my dog and clowns
F
DM
But the film is a saddening bore
D
A#
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
D7
GM
It's about to be writ again
A#
As I ask you to focus on ...CHORUS
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About this song: Life On Mars
In 1968, Bowie wrote "Even a Fool Learns to Love", a song with lyrics by Bowie set to the music of a 1967 French song ("Comme d'habitude"). Bowie's song was never released, but Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version, and rewrote it into "My Way," made famous by Frank Sinatra in a 1969 recording on his album of the same name. The success of the Anka version prompted Bowie to write "Life on Mars?" as a parody of Sinatra's recording. Bowie described how he wrote the song in notes for a Bowie compilation CD that accompanied a June 2008 issue of The Mail on Sunday: