Hang On to Yourself – David Bowie Song Chord/Tab and Lyric

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

Well she is a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the show tonight
Bm F#5-A5-B5
Praying to the light machine
She wants my honey not my money she~s a funky-thigh collector
Bm F#5-A5-B5
Laying on electric dreams

So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

D-C-G5
D-C-G5

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
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

So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

D-C-G5
D-C-G5

Solo Chords: A D A D

So come on, come on, we~ve really got a good thing going
Well come on, come on, if you think we~re gonna make it
You better hang on to yourself

(and the song ends…or whatever…)

The Chords are:

———–

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)