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Janine

David Bowie
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Chords in this song9

Intro

D C G C D x3

Verse 1

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

Verse 2

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

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         

Verse 3

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

Verse 4

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

Chorus

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         
D C G C D (repeat and ad lib)

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