David Bowie

Janine

 

 

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From: Harlan L Thompson

 

JANINE- David Bowie

 

D C G C D D C G C D D C G C D

D F#m G

Oh my love, Janine, I'm helpless for your smile

E E7 A G D

Like a Polish wanderer I travel onwards to your land

A G F#m

And were it not just for the jewels I'd close your hand

 

Your strange demand to 'collocate' my mind

Scares me into gloom, you're too intense

I'll have to keep you in your place

I've no defence, I've got to keep my veil on my face

 

CHORUS:

D D/C G C G

Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well

C G F C

But I've got things inside my head that even I can't face

D D/C G C G

Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls

C G F C

But if you take an axe to me you'll kill another man

D C G C D D C G C D

Not me at all

 

You're fey, Janine, a tripper to the last

But if I catch you standing on my toes

I'll have a right to shout you down

For you're a lazy stream, in which my thoughts would drown

 

So stay, Janine, and we can glide along

I've caught your wings for laughs

I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year

So take your glasses off and don't act so sincere

 

CHORUS

 

D C G C D (repeat and ad lib)

 

 

NOTE: chords are just approximate, any improvements welcome.

FROM: Space Oddity, 1969.