VerseGGDmE7Am
It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
AmDG
But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
GDm
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
E7Am
now she walks through her sunken dream
AmD
To the seat with the clearest view
A#
and she's hooked to the silver screen
Bb+ Gm
But the film is a saddening bore
G#D#
For she's lived it ten times or more
G7CmD#
She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on
ChorusCFG
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
AmFmGGmDm
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show
FmCFG
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
AmFmGGmDm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show
FmAm C+ AmD7FGD
Is there life on Mars?
VerseGGDm
It's on Amerika's tortured brow
E7Am
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
AmD
Now the workers have struck for fame
GGDm
Cause Lennon's on sale again
GGDm
See the mice in their million hordes
E7Am
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
AmD
Rule Brittania is out of bounds
GGDm
To my mother, my dog and clowns
Bb+ Gm
But the film is a saddening bore
G#D#
`Cause I wrote it ten times before
G7Cm
It's about to be writ again
D#
As I ask you to focus on
ChorusCFG
Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
AmFmGGmDm
Oh man! look at those cavemen go, it's a freakest show
FmCFG
Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
AmFmGGmDm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know he's in the best selling show
FmAm C+ AmD7FGD
Is there life on Mars?
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