8 Line Poem

David Bowie

Tom: C

  F / C                        F            C                    /


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  D  / E    E7        F C            F C                   /


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   F    C                           / E            / F


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        D       / G      F      / C

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Tactful cactus by your / window / surveys the prairie of your/ room/
C (continued from above / F      / C                          / F   /


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The mobile spins to its/ collision / Clara puts her head between her /


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  Paws  / They?ve opened shops down on the/ Westside              /


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  Will all the cacti find a/ home?   / But the key to the /city is in/


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  the sun that pins the branches to the/ sky oh                   /

   C                F      C                    F          /


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   C                          F     C                         /


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   F         C


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