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Janine

Words and music by David Bowie


INTRO:	D  C  G C D
        	D  C  G C D
        	D  C  G C D


                                   F#m                   G
Oh my love, Janine I'm helpless for your smile
E                                   A             G                       D
Like a Polish wanderer I travel ever onwards to your land
                  A                    G                             F#m
And were it not just for the jewels I'd close your hand
        D                           F#m              G
Your strange demand to 'collocate' my mind
E                                                  A
Scares me into gloom you're too intense
                G                        D
I'll have to keep you in your place
               A                      G                            F#m
I've no defence I've got to keep my veil on my face


CHORUS 1:
   D                         C                      G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
      C                      G
But I've got things inside my head
        F                C
That even I can't face
   D                         C                      G
Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash the walls
      C                   G
But if you take an axe to me
          F               C             
You'll kill another man not me at all


INTRO


                               F#m              G
You're fey, Janine, a trooper to the last
      E                                           A
But if I catch you standing on my toes
               G                         D
I'll have a right to shout you down 
                   A                   G                                    F#m
For you're a lazy stream in which my thoughts would drown
     D                      F#m              G
So stay, Janine and we can glide along
       E
I've caught your wings for laughs
             A                          G                       D
I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year
                    A                     G                     F#m
So take your glasses off and don't act so sincere


CHORUS 1


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CHORD LIBRARY
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A
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C
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D
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E
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F
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F#m
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G
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