Remembering Marie A chords by David Bowie

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Beginner.



      C majorC                    C majorC (+optional G+G on the light E MajorE string)
It was a day in that blue month september
       FF                      C majorC
Silent beneath the plum trees' slender shade
        A minorAm
I held her there
                DmDm
My love, so pale and silent
       G+G                     C majorC
As if she were a dream that must not fade
        FF                  C majorC
Above us in the summer shinning heaven
          A minorAm                     DmDm
There was a cloud my eyes dwelled long upon
         G+G                DmDm
It was quite white and very high above us
           G+G
Then I looked up
                 C majorC
And found that it had gone

            C majorC                 C(+optional G+G on the light E MajorE string)
And since that day, so many moons in silence
     FF                         C majorC
Have swum across the sky and gone below
            A minorAm                     DmDm
The plum trees surely have been chopped for firewood
         G+G                      C majorC
And if you ask, how does that love seem now
       FF              C majorC
I must admit, I really can't remember
        A minorAm                   DmDm
Though I know what you are trying to say
           G+G                  DmDm
But what that face was like, I know no longer
     G+G                  C majorC
I only know I kissed it on that day


        C majorC             C(+optional G+G on the light E MajorE string)
As for the kiss, I long ago forgot it
         FF                   FF
But for the cloud that floated in the sky
         A minorAm              DmDm
I know that still and shall forever know it
         G+G                   C majorC
It was quite white and moved in very high
        FF                     C majorC
It may be that the plum trees still are blooming
           A minorAm                  DmDm
That woman's seventh child may now be there
          G+G                     DmDm
And yet that cloud had only bloomed for moments
      G+G
When I looked up
              C majorC

Remembering Marie A chords

Based on a poem by Bertolt Brecht. David Bowie sings "Remembering Marie A" in the BBC Baal Revival from 1982.