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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd Rather Be High - David Bowie --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Davic Bowie From: "The Next Day" (2013) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | A | % | % | % | | D | % | A | % | [Verse]

^BmNobokov is sun-licked now U^Dpon the beach at Grunewald ^BmBrilliant and naked just The ^Gway that authors look

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^BmClare and Lady Manners drink Un^Dtil the other cows go home ^BmGossip till their lips are bleeding ^GPolitics and all

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I'd rather be ^Emhigh (I'd rather be ^Ahigh) I'd rather be ^Emflying (I'd rather be ^Aflying) I'd rather be ^Dm7dead Or out of my ^F#m7head Than training these ^Dm7guns on those men in the ^Dsand A I'd rather be high

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The ^BmThames was black, the tower dark I ^Dflew to Cairo, find my regiment ^BmCity's full of generals And ^Ggenerals full of shit

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I ^Bmstumble to the graveyard And I ^Dlay down by my parents, whisper ^BmJust remember duckies Every^Gbody gets got

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I'm ^Dseventeen and my looks can prove it ^A I'm ^Dso afraid that I will lose it ^A I'd ^Erather smoke and phone my ex D7 ^A Be pleading for some teenage sex, yeah ...

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[Outro] (riff) | A | % | % | % | | D | % | A | % | | A | % | % | % | | D | % | A | % | A (I'd rather be flying, I'd rather be high, I'd rather be flying ...)

David Bowie - Id rather be high