Candidate Demo Version chords by David Bowie

Chords with lyrics

This is the demo version of the Candidate song, released on the 1990 sound and vision edition of the
Diamond Dogs album, as bonus track, track #6 of the BB side. Wonderful song with wonderful lyrics by the
wonderful Bowie!

 CANDIDATE (DEMO) - David Bowie
 Album: Diamond Dogs (1974)


[Intro]

(B minorBm E MajorE A augmentedA) 3x

[Verse]

F# minorF#m                 E MajorE
 Inside every teenage girl there's a fountain
F# minorF#m                     E MajorE
 Inside every young pair of paints there's a mountain
B minorBm      E MajorE       A augmentedA          F# minorF#m
 Inside every mother's eyes  is Tommy Tinkrem's bed
B minorBm      E MajorE     A augmentedA         F# minorF#m
 Inside every candidate  waits a grateful dead

[Chorus]

       B minorBm      F#F#       G+G
 I make it a thing, when I on my own to relief myself
       B minorBm       F#F#         G+G
 I make it a thing, when I gazelle on stage to believe in myself
       B minorBm         F#F#          E MajorE
 I make it a thing, to glance in window panes and look pleased with myself
      G+G     E MajorE    B minorBm
 Yeah, and pretend I'm walking home

 (Intro) 2x

[Verse]

F# minorF#m               E MajorE
 I took it so bad, I sat in the correction room
F# minorF#m          E MajorE
 Took me a fag, and a kick in the moon
    B minorBm          E MajorE          A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
 Well, I ain't gonna suck no radar wing because inside this tin is tin
B minorBm       E MajorE       A augmentedA          F# minorF#m     E MajorE
 Would you like techno plate  'cause I'm your candidate, oh yeah

[Chorus]

         B minorBm      F#F#             G+G
 It's a matter of life and the way you walk, you've got a Brylcream queen
         B minorBm     F#F#               G+G
 It' a matter of fact in the things you talk, that keeps his passport clean
       B minorBm     F#F#           E MajorE
 A augmentedA matter of fact that a cock ain't a cock on a twelve inch screen
      G+G    E MajorE    B minorBm
 So I'll pretend I'm walking home

[Outro]

(Intro) 4x

 [Verse]

F# minorF#m                    E MajorE
 You don't have to scream a lot to keep an age in tune
F# minorF#m               E MajorE
 You don't have to scream a lot to predict monsoons
B minorBm          E MajorE           A augmentedA          F# minorF#m
 You don't have to paint my contact black  now I've hustled a pair of jeans
B minorBm       E MajorE          A augmentedA          F# minorF#m  E MajorE
 Do I have to give your money back  when I'm the Fuhrerling

[Chorus]

         B minorBm       F#F#           G+G
 I'll make you a deal I'll say I came from Earth and my tongue is taped
         B minorBm      F#F#          G+G
 I'll make you a deal you can get your kicks on the candidate
         B minorBm      F#F#          E MajorE
 I'll make you a deal for your future's sake I'm the candidate
      G+G     E MajorE    B minorBm
 Let's pretend we're walking home

 (Intro)...... repeat until fade


 [Chords]

  B minorBm  E MajorE  A augmentedA F# minorF#m  F#F#  G+G
e|--2----0---0---2----2----3--|
BB|--3----0---2---2----2----3--|
G+G|--4----1---2---2----3----0--|
D MajorD|--4----2---2---4----4----0--|
A augmentedA|--2----2---0---4----4----2--|
E MajorE|-------0-------2----2----3--|