Five Years

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David Bowie - Five Years
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Chords:
G
- x55433
Em
- 022000
A
- x02220
C/G
- 332010
Am
- x02210
D7
- xx0212
G Em
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing
A C/G
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
G Em
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
A C/G
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
G
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
Em
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'s
A
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
C/G
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
Am C/G
And all the fat-skinny people,
Am C/G
and all the tall-short people,
G C/G
and all the nobody people,
D7
and all the somebody people
Am C/G
I never thought I'd need so many people
G Em
A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
A C/G
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
G Em
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A C/G
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest,and a queer Threw up at the sight of that
G Em
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long
A C/G
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think You knew you were in this song
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/G
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
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/G
Five years, that's all we've got
G
Five years, what a surprise
Em
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C/G
Five years, that's all we've got
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/G
Five years, that's all we've got
G
Five years, what a surprise
Em
Five years, stuck on my eyes
A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C/G
Five years, that's all we've got
G
Five years
Em
Five years
A
Five years
C/G
Five years !
G

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David Bowie - Five Years
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Chords:
G   - x55433
Em  - 022000
A   - x02220
C/G - 332010
Am  - x02210
D7  - xx0212 
G

Five Years Chords by David Bowie

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