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Song title:       Lazarus
Original Album:	  Blackstar

Words and Music by David Bowie
Copyright © 2015 Nipple Music and RZO Music Inc / RZO Music Ltd.
Published by Faber Music

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Notes:
In PART I, chords are strummed as 16ths.

Chords:
Dsus2  xxx755    Am/C    xxx555
A5/G   xxx055    A5/B    xxx455
A5     xxx255    C6add9  x00210
A5/E   xx2255    Fmaj7   1322xx


PART I

[play: 4/4| Dsus2 A5/G | A5 A5/E | Am/C A5/B | A5/G A5/E |]

[play: 4/4| Dsus2 A5/G | A5 A5/E | Am/C A5/B | A5/G |]


PART II

[play: 4/4| C6add9 | Fmaj7 | C6add9 | Fmaj7 |]

[play: 4/4| C6add9 | Fmaj7 | C6add9 | Fmaj7 | % |]


VERSE1:
Notes:
C6/9 is the US notation for C6add9. Used here for brevity.

Chords:
C6/9    x00210
Fmaj7   1322xx
G       320033

| C6/9                 | Fmaj7  G |
    Look up here, I'm in heaven

| C6/9                | Fmaj7         G |
    I've got scars that can't be seen

| C6/9                     | Fmaj7  G |
    I've got drama, can't be stolen

| C6/9               | Fmaj7  G |
    Everybody knows me now


[play: 4/4| C6add9 | Fmaj7 | C6add9 | Fmaj7 |]  [x2]


VERSE2:
Notes:
C6/9 is the US notation for C6add9. Used here for brevity.
G7/11 is the US notation for G7add11. Used here for brevity.

For G7/11, x55567 sounds, to me, a bit better but you be the judge -
I'm probably just being weird.

Chords:
C6/9  x00210    G     320033
Fmaj7 1322xx    G7/11 x33433 or x55567

| C6/9                      | Fmaj7 G |
    Look up here, man, I'm in danger

| C6/9                     | Fmaj7  G |
    I've got nothing less to lose

| C6/9                    | Fmaj7      G |
    I'm so high it makes my brain whirl

| C6/9                           | Fmaj7 G |
    I dropped my cellphone down be-low

| C6/9 | Fmaj7    G |          | C6/9 | Fmaj7  G7/11 |
             Ain't that just like me?


BRIDGE:
Chords:
C     x30210    D      xx0232
C7/E  xx2313    Cm6/G  3x121x
D/F#  2x023x

| C        C7/E        | D/F#     D |
    By the time I got to New York,
| C       C7/E   Cm6/G        | D/F# D |
    I was living like  a king

| C        C7/E         | D/F# |
    Then I used up all my money,
| C       C7/E    Cm6/G    | D/F# |
    I was looking for   your ass


VERSE3:
Chords:
Am x02210    G  320033
F  x33211    F6 133231

| Am          | F      G | Am                     | F G |
    This way or no way,      you know, I'll be free
| Am             | F        G | Am                        | F |
    Just like that bluebird,       now ain't that just like me

| Am          | F     G | Am              | F        G |
    Oh, I'll be free,        just like that bluebird
| Am          | F     G | Am                    | F6 |
    Oh, I'll be free         ain't that just like me?


OUTRO:
Notes:
The outro comprises a saxophone part (untranscribed) played over the first
16 measures. The guitar then returns playing single 16th notes for which, you
could just substitute the chords.
 
Chords:
A7sus4 x02030    Am    x02210
Fmaj7  1322xx    Fmaj9 x03011

[play: 4/4| A7sus4 | Fmaj7 |]  [x8]

[play: 4/4| Am | Fmaj7 |]  [x2]

[play: 4/4| Am | Fmaj9 |]  [x4]

[end on Am]