An Oddity On Mars

arranged for a ukulele medley . G G/F# Dm/F E7 Am it’s a god - awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair Am/G D/F# G but her mother is yelling "no" and her father as told her to go G/F# Dm/F but her friend is nowhere to be seen E7 Am as she walks through her sunken dream Am/G D/F# to the seat with the clearest view A# and she’s hooked to the silver screen A#+ Gm but the film is a saddEning bore G# D# for she’s lived it ten times or more G7 Cm D# she could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on Chorus : C F G sailors , fighting in the dance hall Am Fm G Gm Dm oh man! look at those cavemen go , it’s a freakest show Fm C F G take a look at the lawman , beating up the wrong guy Am Fm G Gm Dm oh man! wonder if he’ll ever know he’s in the best selling show Fm Am C+ Am7 D7 F Gsus4 D is there life on mars? D F#m D F#m ground control to major tom ground control to major tom : Bm Bm7/A E7 take your protein pills and put your helmet on D F#m D F#m ground control to major tom : commencing countdown engine’s on Bm Bm7/A E7 check ig - nition and may god’s love be with you D F#m G this is ground control to major tom , you’ve really made the grade! Gm D/F# G and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear , Gm D/F# G now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare G G/F# Dm/F E7 Am it’s on amerika’s tortured brow mickey mouse has grown up a cow Am/G D/F# G now the workers have struck for fame cause lennon’s on sale again G/F# Dm/F see the mice in their million hordes E7 Am from ibeza to the norfolk broads Am/G D/F# rule brittania is out of bounds A# to my mother , my dog and clowns A#+ Gm but the film is a saddEning bore G# D# `cause i wrote it ten times before G7 Cm D# it’s about to be writ again as i ask you to focus ’cuz C E7 F this is major tom to ground con - trol , i’m stepping through the door Fm C/E F and i’m floating in the most peculiar way Fm C/E F and the stars look very different today