D       D/C#              Am/C
 It's a god-awful small affair
        B7                 Em
To the girl with the mousy hair
        Em/D             A/C#
But her mummy is yelling no
         A                     D
And her daddy has told her to go

         D/C#                    Am/C
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
        B7                         Em
Now she walks through her sunken dream
         Em/D                   A/C#
To the seat with the clearest view
         A7
And she's hooked to the silver screen

F        C#7M(5+)            Dm
But the film is a saddening bore
          Eb                         Bb/F
For she's lived it ten times, or more
           D7                  Gm
She could spit in the eyes of fools
        Bb
As they ask her to focus on

G        C/G
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Em         Em/D#                 D
 Oh, man! Look at those cavemen go
Dm                    Am7
 It's the freakiest show
Cm7                  G
 Take a look at the lawman
C/G
Beating up the wrong guy
Em        Em/D#                   D
 Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
Dm                          Am7
 He's in the best selling show
Cm7                 Em  Em/D# Em/D A/C#
 Is there life on mars?

[Solo] D D#° Em F°
       F#m G Gm

D          D/C#              Am/C
 It's on america's tortured brow
             B7                   Em
That mickey mouse has grown up a cow
         Em/D                     A/C#
Now the workers have struck for fame
        A
'cause lennon's on sale again

D          D/C#                 Am/C
 See the mice in their million hordes
       B7                   Em
From ibiza to the norfolk broads
         Em/D              A/C#
Rule britannia is out of bounds
        A7
To my mother, my dog, and clowns

F         C#7M(5+)             Dm
 But the film is a saddening bore
           Eb                    Bb/F
'cause I wrote it ten times, or more
       D7                Gm
It's about to be writ again
      Bb
As I ask you to focus on

G        C/G
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Em        Em/D#                 D
 Oh, man! Look at those cavemen go
Dm                   Am7
 It's the freakiest show
Cm7                  G
 Take a look at the lawman
C/G
Beating up the wrong guy
Em        Em/D#                    D
 Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
Dm                          Am7
 He's in the best selling show
Cm7                Em  Em/D#  Em/D  A/C#
 Is there life on mars?

[Final] D D#° Em G/D
        G C Cm G