David Bowie - Id Rather Be High Chords & Tabs

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                I'd Rather Be High - David Bowie
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

David Bowie
I'd Rather Be High (2013)
(Bowie)

From: "The Next Day"

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INTRO
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Bm           
Nobokov is sun-licked now
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Upon the beach at Grunewald
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Brilliant and naked just
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The way that authors look

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Bm           
Clare and Lady Manners drink
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Until the other cows go home
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Gossip till their lips are bleeding
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Politics and all

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              Em                  A
I'd rather be high (I'd rather be high)
              Em
I'd rather be flying (I'd rather be flying)
              Dm7
I'd rather be dead
             F#m7
Or out of my head
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Than training these guns on those men in the sand
              [A]
I'd rather be high

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    Bm           
The Thames was black, the tower dark
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I flew to Cairo, find my regiment
Bm           
City's full of generals
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And generals full of shit

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  Bm           
I stumble to the graveyard 
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And I lay down by my parents, whisper
Bm           
Just remember duckies
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Everybody gets got

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              Em                  A
I'd rather be high (I'd rather be high)
              Em
I'd rather be flying (I'd rather be flying)
              Dm7
I'd rather be dead
             F#m7
Or out of my head
                    Dm7                      D
Than training these guns on those men in the sand
              [A]
I'd rather be high

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    D                                    A
I'm seventeen and my looks can prove it
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I'm so afraid that I will lose it
    E
I'd rather smoke and phone my ex
   D7                             [A]
Be pleading for some teenage sex, yeah ...
Yeah

RIFF
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              Em                  A
I'd rather be high (I'd rather be high)
              Em
I'd rather be flying (I'd rather be flying)
              Dm7
I'd rather be dead
             F#m7
Or out of my head
                    Dm7                      D
Than training these guns on those men in the sand
              [A]
I'd rather be high

RIFF
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(I'd rather be flying, I'd rather be high, I'd rather be flying ...)