| id0 |
389 |
| title |
Oh! you pretty things |
| artist |
David Bowie |
| year |
1971 |
| album |
Hunky dory |
| playable |
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| title_artist |
ohyouprettythings_davidbowie |
| transpose |
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| count |
5 |
| status0 |
0 |
| lastdate |
1754786173 |
| ip |
216.73.216.246/Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com) |
| originalkey |
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Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
I look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
What are we coming to
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the Golden Ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mothers and fathers insane
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mothers and fathers insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior
Look out at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
They're the start of the coming race
The earth is a bitch
We've finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mothers and fathers insane
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mothers and fathers insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior
INTRO: <span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">G# </span><span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">E </span><span class="ch">D </span>
<span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">G# </span><span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">E </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6</span>
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D</span>
Wake up you sleepy head
<span class="ch">Emsus4 </span><span class="ch">Em</span>
Put on some clothes shake off your bed
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D</span>
Put another log on the fire for me
<span class="ch">A </span><span class="ch">E</span>
I've made some breakfast and coffee
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D </span>
Look out my window, what do I see
<span class="ch">B7 </span><span class="ch">Em </span><span class="ch">F </span><span class="ch">C</span>
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
<span class="ch">A7 </span><span class="ch">D</span>
All the nightmares came today
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">C#dim </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D#dim </span><span class="ch"><span class="ch">D# </span><span class="ch">B </span><span class="ch">F#sus4 </span><span class="ch">F#</span>
And it looks as though they're here to stay
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D</span>
What are we coming to
<span class="ch">Emsus4 </span><span class="ch">Em</span>
No room for me no fun for you
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D</span>
I think about a world to come
<span class="ch">A </span><span class="ch">E</span>
Where the books were found by the Golden Ones
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D</span>
Written in pain written in awe
<span class="ch">B7 </span><span class="ch">Em </span><span class="ch">C</span>
By a puzzled man who questioned what we were here for
<span class="ch">A7 </span><span class="ch">D</span>
All the strangers came today
<span class="ch">G</span>
And it looks as though they're here to stay
CHORUS 1:
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">Bm </span><span class="ch">Em</span>
Oh you pretty things
<span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">C7 </span><span class="ch">G</span>
Don't you know you're driving your mamas and papas insane?
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">Bm </span><span class="ch">Em</span>
Oh you pretty things
<span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">C7 </span><span class="ch">G</span>
Don't you know you're driving your mamas and papas insane?
<span class="ch">A</span>
Let me make it plain
<span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">C </span><span class="ch">G</span>
Gotta make way for the homo superior
<span class="ch">D</span>
Look out at your children
<span class="ch">Emsus4 </span><span class="ch">Em</span>
See their faces in golden rays
<span class="ch">G </span><span class="ch">D</span>
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
<span class="ch">A </span><span class="ch">E</span>
They're the start of the coming race
<span class="ch">G </span>
The earth is a bitch
<span class="ch">D</span>
We've finished our news
<span class="ch">B7 </span><span class="ch">Em </span><span class="ch">F </span><span class="ch">C</span>
Homo sapiens have outgrown their use
<span class="ch">A7 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">G</span>
All the strangers came today and it looks as though they're here to stay
CHORUS 2
OUTRO: <span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">G# </span><span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">E </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">G# </span><span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">E </span>
<span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6 </span><span class="ch">D </span><span class="ch">D6</span>
<span class="ch">C# </span><span class="ch">C#6 </span><span class="ch">D# </span><span class="ch">D#6 </span><span class="ch">F# </span><span class="ch">C# </span>
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NOTES:
This song is a piano based song and as far as I'm aware there's no guitar in the
original recording at all. I think it's a semitone flat on the recording. They
probably all tuned to the piano, I would imagine it's in 'G' rather than in 'F#'
so I've written it in 'G.' If you want to play along to the record you'll need
to tune your guitar down flat (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb)
The intro and outro are untranscribable for the guitar because sometimes things
that are relatively easy to play on the piano are impossible on the guitar and
vice-versa. I've just put the backing chords.
CHORUS: Again no guitar, but live Mick Ronson used to play a G major run down,
sort of:
G BmEmD C7 G G BmEmD C7 GADC G
E--------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------
D-5-4-2-------5-35-5-4-2-------57------
A-------5-31---5---------5-31----53/10-
E-----------31---------------31--------
INTRO: F#G#F#E D D6D D6 G
E--2-4-2-0-----------------3
B--2-4-2-0-33333333333333330
F# G# F# E D...then...G--3-5-3-1-22442244224422440
D--4-6-4-2-00000000000000000
A--4-6-4-2-----------------2
E--2-4-2-0-----------------3
OUTRO: F#G#F#E D D6D D6D D6D D6 C#C#6D#D#6 F# C#
E--2-4-2--------------------------------2-2-4-
B--2-4-2--------------------------------2-2-6-
F# G# F# E D...then...G--3-5-3-9------------------------------3-3-6-
D--4-6-4-9-7799779977997799-6688-881010-4-4-6-
A--4-6-4-7-5555555555555555-4444-666 6 -4-4-4-
E--2-4-2--------------------------------2-2---
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CHORDS: EADGBE
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G 320003
C X32010
F# 244322
Bm X24432
C#dim XX2323
F 133211
A X02220
G# 466344
C# X46664
D#dim XX4545
E 022100
A7 X02020
B7 X21202
Emsus4 022200
D XX0232
C7 X32310
Em 022000
C#6 X48XXX
F#sus4 244422
B X24442
D6 XX0432
D# XX5343
EAD GBE
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D#6 X610XXX