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BEWLAY BROTHERS David Bowie

And so the st[D]ory goes they wore the clothes

They said the[D] things to make it seem imp[Em]robable[A]

The whale of[D] a lie like they hope it [D]was[Em] [A]

And the G[D]oodmen of Tomorrow

Had [D]their feet in the wallow

And thei[Em]r heads of Brawn, were nicer shorn

And h[A]ow they bought their positions with sacc[D]harin and trust.[D]

The world[Em] was asleep to our laten[A]t fuss.[D] [D]

[Em]Sighing the swirl through the streets

Like the [A]crust of the sun

[Bm]The Bewlay Brothers

in our Wi[A]ngs that Bark

Flashing t[G]eeth of Brass

Standing t[F#]all in the dark

Oh, We were G[Em]one-----

Hanging out with your Dw[G]arf Men

We were so turned [Em]on

By your lack of Co[G]nclusions

[D] [D] [Em] [A7] I was Stone and he was Wax

So he could scream and still relax, unbelievable

And we frightened the small children away

And our talk was old and dust would flow

Thru our veins and Lo! it was midnight

Back o' the kitchen door

Like the grim face on the Cathedral floor

And the solid book we wrote

Cannot be found today

It was stalking time for the Moonboys

The Bewlay Brothers

With our backs on the arch

In the Devil-may-be-here

But He can't sing above that

Oh, We were Gone

Real Cool Traders

We were so Turned On

You thought we were Fakers

[D] [D] [Em] [A7] Now the dress is hung, the ticket pawned

the Factor Max that proved the fact

is melted down,

And woven on the edging of my pillow

Now my Brother lays upon the Rocks

He could be dead. He could be not,

He could be You.

He's Camelian, comedian Corinthian and Caricature

"Shooting-up Pie-in-the-Sky"

The Bewlay Brothers

In the feeble and the Bad

The Bewlay Brothers

In the Blessed and Cold

In the Crutch-hungry dark

Was where we flayed our Mark

Oh, We were Gone

Kings of Oblivion

We were so Turned On

In the Mind-Warp Pavilion

[Bm]Lay me Place and [A]bake me Pie

I'm st[G]arving for me Gr[Em]avy

[Bm]Leave my shoes, and do[A]or unlocked

I mi[G]ght just slip aw[Em]ay

Just for the D[F]ay, Hey! (Repeat last 2 lines into fade)

Please come A[Bm]way, Hey!

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Edwin Ostrin University of Texas at Austin

Hofstadter's Law : It always takes longer than you expect, even when

you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

-- Douglas Hofstadter, _Godel,_Escher,_Bach_

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#style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11px;">OK, I just figured this one out.  Not too hard.
#In the second and third verses, another guitar comes in and solos
#over the chords.
#
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#The Bewlay Brothers - David Bowie
#off the CD Hunky Dory
#
#(intro) D D Em A7 x2
And so the st[D]ory goes they wore the clothes
They said the[D] things to make it seem imp[Em]robable[A]
The whale of[D] a lie like they hope it [D]was[Em][A]
And the G[D]oodmen of Tomorrow
Had [D]their feet in the wallow
And thei[Em]r heads of Brawn, were nicer shorn
And h[A]ow they bought their positions with sacc[D]harin and trust.[D]
The world[Em] was asleep to our laten[A]t fuss.[D][D]
[Em]Sighing the swirl through the streets
Like the [A]crust of the sun
[Bm]The Bewlay Brothers
in our Wi[A]ngs that Bark
Flashing t[G]eeth of Brass
Standing t[F#]all in the dark
Oh, We were G[Em]one-----
Hanging out with your Dw[G]arf Men
We were so turned [Em]on
By your lack of Co[G]nclusions
[D]  [D]  [Em]   [A7]   I was Stone and he was Wax
So he could scream and still relax, unbelievable
And we frightened the small children away
And our talk was old and dust would flow
Thru our veins and Lo! it was midnight
Back o' the kitchen door
Like the grim face on the Cathedral floor
And the solid book we wrote
Cannot be found today
It was stalking time for the Moonboys
The Bewlay Brothers
With our backs on the arch
In the Devil-may-be-here
But He can't sing above that
Oh, We were Gone
Real Cool Traders
We were so Turned On
You thought we were Fakers
[D]  [D]  [Em]   [A7]   Now the dress is hung, the ticket pawned
the Factor Max that proved the fact
is melted down,
And woven on the edging of my pillow
Now my Brother lays upon the Rocks
He could be dead.  He could be not,
He could be You.
He's Camelian, comedian Corinthian and Caricature
"Shooting-up Pie-in-the-Sky"
The Bewlay Brothers
In the feeble and the Bad
The Bewlay Brothers
In the Blessed and Cold
In the Crutch-hungry dark
Was where we flayed our Mark
Oh, We were Gone
Kings of Oblivion
We were so Turned On
In the Mind-Warp Pavilion
[Bm]Lay me Place and [A]bake me Pie
I'm st[G]arving for me Gr[Em]avy
[Bm]Leave my shoes, and do[A]or unlocked
I mi[G]ght just slip aw[Em]ay
Just for the D[F]ay, Hey!               (Repeat last 2 lines into fade)
Please come A[Bm]way, Hey!
                                                                                            
{sot}
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{eot}
Edwin Ostrin      University of Texas at Austin
Hofstadter's Law : It always takes longer than you expect, even when
you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
                        -- Douglas Hofstadter, _Godel,_Escher,_Bach_
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Russ_L68 (report)

The List of ""5 popular songs.(in the upper right corner of the web page)..Blocks the chords belonging to the song I'm trying to learn!!!!!!!!

erielhonan (report)

More or less correct version here - http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/3020/Hunky.html#Bewlay

Problems with this version -
- first verse, third line - doesn't go to D till the word "hope"

- Oh we were G[Asus-d to A]one should be G[Em/A]one

- chords for outro ("lay me place...") should be Bm - C5 - F - Bm (then Bm - F on the "Please come away/Just for today" fade)

- Little riff that gets played 2x at intro, 1x between verses:
|2--2--2-3-2--------0--0-0--0--0--0--0-|
|3--3--------3------0--0-0--2--2--2--2-|
|2--2---------------0--0-0--0--0--0--0-|
|0--0---------------2-------2--2--2--2-|
|-------------------2-------0--0-------|
|---------------0---0------------------|
The end of that is more like strumming around the high strings on A7 - get the rhythm from the recording.

- outside this riff, the [A]s in this version of the tab can be swapped for [A7]s. I like to play it as mostly A7, throwing an A in here or there to make a line sound stronger & less wistful.

OutBreak23 (report)

the last section is still wrong but the guitar is so far under the lyrics its hard to hear whats going on. the correct chords can be found i Bowie's Ziggy music book

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