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*

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:

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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)