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Candidate Demo Version chords by David Bowie

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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 Chord diagramBB side. Wonderful song with wonderful lyrics by the
wonderful Bowie!

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


[Intro]

(Chord diagramB minorBm  Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramA augmentedA) 3x

[Verse]

Chord diagramF# minorF#m                                  Chord diagramE MajorE
 Inside every teenage girl there's a fountain
Chord diagramF# minorF#m                                          Chord diagramE MajorE
 Inside every young pair of paints there's a mountain
Chord diagramB minorBm            Chord diagramE MajorE             Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramF# minorF#m
 Inside every mother's eyes   is Tommy Tinkrem's bed
Chord diagramB minorBm            Chord diagramE MajorE         Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramF# minorF#m
 Inside every candidate   waits a grateful dead

[Chorus]

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

 (Intro) 2x

[Verse]

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

[Chorus]

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

[Outro]

(Intro) 4x

 [Verse]

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

[Chorus]

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

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


 [Chords]

    Chord diagramB minorBm   Chord diagramE MajorE   Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramF# minorF#m   Chord diagramF#F#   Chord diagramG+G
e|--2----0---0---2----2----3--|
Chord diagramBB|--3----0---2---2----2----3--|
Chord diagramG+G|--4----1---2---2----3----0--|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--4----2---2---4----4----0--|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|--2----2---0---4----4----2--|
Chord diagramE MajorE|-------0-------2----2----3--|

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