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/ David Bowie / The Man Who Sold the World (1970) / Hang On To Yourself guitar tab

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)


David Bowie albums
1979 Lodger
1972 Ziggy Stardust
1971 Hunky Dory
1970 The Man Who Sold the World
1969 Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold the World tabs
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02All the Madmen tabbass tab
03Black Country Rock tabbass tab
05Running Gun Blues tabbass tab
08The Man Who Sold The World tabbass tab
09The Supermen tabbass tab
12Moonage Daydream tabbass tab
13Hang On To Yourself tabbass tab

 

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