BOWIE DAVID - "hang on to your self" Tablature

From: Winston Campbell <jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu>


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)