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Song title:       Changes
Original Album:	  Hunky Dory

Words and Music by David Bowie
Copyright © 1971 RCA Records
Published by Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was recorded as a piano song, so you'll need to make an own arrangement
for solo guitar e.g. try single arpeggios in the INTRO.


INTRO:
Chords:
Cmaj7  x32000
Db6    x4332x
Dm7    x5756x
D#7    x6564x


[play: Cmaj7  Db6  Dm7  D#7]


[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]

Guitar Figure 1

 1a                               1b
  F                                D
|-1---/---/---/---/---/---/---/--|--------------------------------|
|-1---/---/---/---/---/---/---/--|--------------------------------|
|-2---/---/---/---/---/---/---/--|-------------0---2---2---4---2--|
|-3---/---/---/---/---/---/---/--|-0---0---4----------------------|
|-3---/---/---/---/---/---/---/--|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - 7 - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - 7 - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


[play: Guitar Figure 1a]


VERSE:
Chords:
C   x32010    G    320033    Ebm7 x6867x
Em  022000    Dm7  x5756x
F   x33211    Em7  x7978x

C                             Em
  Still don't know what I was waiting for
       F                G  
And my time was running wild,
          F
A million dead-end streets and
C                          Em
  Every time I thought I'd got it made
             F                G
It seems the taste was not so sweet,
     C        Dm7     Em7     Ebm7
So I turned myself to face me
    Dm7                          G
But I've never caught a glimpse
           C           Dm7     Em7   Ebm7
Of how the others must see the faker
             Dm7
I'm much too fast to take that test


CHORUS:
Notes:
As this is really a piano song, the bass notes (and descending bass figures)
feature prominently. To try to mimic this on guitar you should try to add
bass notes where indicated.

Chords:
G    320033    C/A  x02010    Am   x02210    G/D  xx0433
F    x33211    C/G  332010    Bb   xx0331    F/G  303211
C    x32010    F/E  033211    Dm7  xx0211
C/B  x22010    D    x00232    C/E  032010

G           F        C        C/B      C/A
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange.
         C/G      F       F/E        D
Ch-ch-ch-changes,   don't wanna be a richer man,
G             F        C        C/B      C/A
  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange.
      C/G     F      F/E                D
Ch-ch-changes,  it's gonna have to be a different man.
Am   G   Bb     F      C/E G/D   F/G   C
Time may change me but I   can't trace time


[play Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


Oh, yeah


VERSE:
Chords:
C   x32010    G    320033    Ebm7 x6867x
Em  022000    Dm7  x5756x
F   x33211    Em7  x7978x

C                       Em
  I watched the ripples change their size
    F               G                F
But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and
C                   Em
  So the days float through my eyes 
    F                       G
But still the days seem the same.
	  C        Dm7          Em7     Ebm7
And these children     that you spit on
        Dm7                 G
As they try to change their worlds
     C        Dm7        Em7      Ebm7
Are immune to your consultations
               Dm7
They're quite aware of what they're going through.


CHORUS:
Chords:
G    320033    C/A  x02010    Am   x02210    G/D  xx0433
F    x33211    C/G  332010    Bb   xx0331    F/G  303211
C    x32010    F/E  033211    Dm7  xx0211
C/B  x22010    D    x00232    C/E  032010

G           F        C        C/B      C/A
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange
         C/G      F                    F/E         D
Ch-ch-ch-changes,   don't tell them to grow up and out of it.
G           F        C        C/B      C/A
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange
         C/G      F                          F/E               D
Ch-ch-ch-changes, where's your shame, you've left us up to our necks in it.
Am   G   Bb     F       C/E G/D   F/G   C     Dm7 - C/E
Time may change me, but you can't trace time.


BRIDGE:
Chords:
F    x33211
C/G  332010
G    320033

F                        C/G
Strange fascination, fascinate me
    F	  		   G
Ah, changes are taking the pace I'm going through


CHORUS:
G        F           C        C/B      C/A
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange,
      C/G      F              F/E          D
Ch-ch-changes,   Ooh look out you rock 'n' rollers
G        F           C        C/B      C/A
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange
      C/G      F               F/E                  D
Ch-ch-changes, pretty soon now     you're gonna get older.
Am   G   Bb     F      C/E G/D   F/G   C
Time may change me, but I  can't trace time.
	    Am   G   Bb     F      C/E G/D   F/G   C
I said that time may change me, but I  can't trace time.


OUTRO:
Notes:
On the recording, a sax figure is played over these piano chords.
For a solo acoustic guitar, you could playing arpeggios.

Chords:
Dm7  x5756x    Dbm7   x4645x
Em7  020000    Cmaj7  x32000
D#7  x6564x


[play:  Dm7  Em7  D#7  Dm7  Dbm7  Cmaj7]

[end on Cmaj7]