Key: E
Introduction:
Fm Fm/E Fm Bb7
Verse
Eb Eb/D Bbm/F
It's a god-awful small affair
C7 Fm
To the girl with the mousy hair
Fm/E Fm
But her mummy is yelling "No"
Bb7 Eb
And her daddy has told her to go
Eb/D Bbm/F
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
C7 Fm
Now she walks through her sunken dream
Fm/E Fm
To the seat with the clearest view
Bb7 Gb
And she's hooked to the silver screen
Gb/F Ebm
But the film is a saddening bore
E B
For she's lived it ten times or more
Eb7 Abm
She could spit in the eyes of fools
B7
As they ask her to focus on
Ab Db
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Fm Dbm Eb Ebm
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
Bbº Dbm
It's the freakiest show
Ab
Take a look at the Lawman
Db
Beating up the wrong guy
Fm Dbm Eb Ebm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
Bbº Dbm
He's in the best selling show
Fm Fm/E Fm Bb7
Is there life on Mars?
Bridge
Gm Ab Abm
verse 2
Eb Eb/D Bbm/F
It's on America's tortured brow
C7 Fm
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Fm/E Fm
Now the workers have struck for fame
Bb7 Eb
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
Eb/D Bbm/F
See the mice in their million hordes
C7 Fm
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Fm/E Fm
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
Bb7 Gb
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
Gb/F Ebm
But the film is a saddening bore
E B
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
Eb7 Abm
It's about to be writ again
B7
As I ask you to focus on
Ab Db
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Fm Dbm Eb Ebm
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
Bbº Dbm
It's the freakiest show
Ab
Take a look at the Lawman
Db
Beating up the wrong guy
Fm Dbm Eb Ebm
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
Bbº Dbm
He's in the best selling show
Fm Fm/E Fm Bb7
Is there life on Mars?
Outro