Janine tab - david bowie

From: Harlan L Thompson 

JANINE- David Bowie

D  C  G C D  D  C  G C D  D  C  G C D
        D                F#m               G
Oh my love, Janine, I'm helpless for your smile
 E              E7         A       G             D
Like a Polish wanderer I travel onwards to your land
             A                G                    F#m
And were it not just for the jewels I'd close your hand

Your strange demand to 'collocate' my mind
Scares me into gloom, you're too intense
I'll have to keep you in your place
I've no defence, I've got to keep my veil on my face

CHORUS:
 D       D/C           G        C      G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
      C               G                  F             C
But I've got things inside my head that even I can't face
  D      D/C           G       C         G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls
     C               G               F            C
But if you take an axe to me you'll kill another man
           D    C   G C D  D  C  G C D
Not me at all

You're fey, Janine, a tripper to the last
But if I catch you standing on my toes
I'll have a right to shout you down
For you're a lazy stream, in which my thoughts would drown

So stay, Janine, and we can glide along
I've caught your wings for laughs
I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year
So take your glasses off and don't act so sincere

CHORUS

D  C  G C D (repeat and ad lib)


NOTE: chords are just approximate, any improvements welcome.
FROM: Space Oddity, 1969.

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David Bowie - Janine 1969
David Bowie 1969

david bowie - janine
from the 1968 recordings THE BECKENHAM ODDITY

David Bowie - Janine
Janine is a song written and performed by David Bowie. It is from the album Space Oddity in 1969. Lyrics: Oh my love, Janine I'm helpless for your smile Like a Polish wanderer I travel ever onwards to your land And were it not just for the jewels, I'd close your hand Your strange demand To 'collocate' my mind Scares me into gloom You're too intense I'll have to keep you in your place I've no defence I've got to keep my veil on my face Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well But I've got things inside my head That even I can't face Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls But if you take an axe to me You'll kill another man Not me at all You're fey, Janine A tripper to the last But if I catch you standing on my toes I'll have a right to shout you down For you're a lazy stream In which my thoughts would drown So stay, Janine And we can glide along I've caught your wings for laughs I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year So take your glasses off And don't act so sincere Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well But I've got things inside my head That even I can't face Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls But if you take an axe to me You'll kill another man Not me at all

David Bowie - Janine - 1969
Janine is a song from David Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity. It contains a mix of folk, balladry, and prog rock. Held to be "the first Bowie album proper", and his first deemed worthy by record companies of regular reissue, Space Oddity featured a notable list of collaborators, including session players Herbie Flowers, Tim Renwick, Terry Cox, and Rick Wakeman, as well as cellist Paul Buckmaster, multi-instrumentalist and producer Tony Visconti, and bassist John Lodge. "Janine" is a song written by David Bowie in 1969 for the album Space Oddity. Bowie recorded a demo version of the song together with John Hutchinson in February 1969. The song was also featured in the 1998 film Whatever.

Janine JACK HICKO plays David Bowie
I am very sorry, but I am incapable of playing this song correctly through to the end. Practice doesn't help.