David Bowie — Hang On To Your Self Tab

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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)