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by David Bowie


>From guez@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Guez Ofer)


                         David Bowie - Changes
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>From the album "Hunky Dory", 1971

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               I Still dont know what i was waiting for
                                            
                     And my time was running wild,
                                
                      A million dead-end streets.
                                           
               And every time i thought i'd got it made
                                                     
                  It seems the taste was not so sweet,
                                           
                    So i turned my self to face me
                                                
                    But I've never caught a glimpse
                                                  
                 Of how the others must see the faker
                                              
                  I'm much too fast to take that test

                                              
              Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange.
                                                      
              Ch-ch-ch-changes, you wanna be a richer man,
                                                     
              Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange.
                                             
                     It's gonna be a different man.
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              Time may change     me -- but i  cant trace time

                             -- oh yeah --

                 I watch the ripples change their size
                       But never leave the stream
                         Of warm impermanence.
                   And so the days flow thru my eyes
                   But the days still seem the same.
                     And this children you spit on
                   As they try to change their worlds,
                   Are immune to your consultations.
            Theyr'e quite aware of what they're going thru.

              Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange
      Ch-ch-ch-changes, don't tell them to grow up and out of it.
              Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange
                 Ch-ch-ch-changes, there's your shame,
                  you've left us up yo our neck in it.
             Time may change me, but you can't trace time.

                  Strange fascination fascinating me.
            Oh changes are taking the place I'm going thru.
              Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange,
           Ch-ch-ch-changes, Oh look out you Rock 'n rollers
              Ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange
   Ch-ch-ch-changes, pretty soon now you're gonna get a little older.
              Time may change me, But i can't trace time.

"I wish David Bowie was killed by a car accident right after
 he finished making [his album] LOW " - MORRISSEY

BYE,
        ofer.


     

The Chords by Guez Ofer are completely spot on...good work...
All that was missing was the intro...which wasn't too hard to tab out:
Here it is:

Intro: ()
(played by trumpets+piano in the original song...)
                    
e:-------------------1-----|
B:-------------------1-----|
G:--2-2-2-2-2-2-2----2-----|x2
D:--2-2-2-2-2-4-2----3-----|
A:--0-0-4------------3-----|
E:-------------------1-----|
   Yeah....

Repeated twice.  It also comes up once or twice during the song.

Also Guez didn't put the chords for this bit.  I figured out these
chords at home but I forgot to write them...  Off the top of my head:

             		 
Strange fascinations fascinating me
	                  
Oh changes are taking the place I'm going thru.

This is probably wrong....just thought you should know that it's
missing.
--
Frederic Maquet
"Ski HARD!"
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