Heroes - David Bowie
Tabs and Chords
Note - Bowie Copyright © Corrections Welcomed - Last Update Heroes Jun/2002
Main Index Bowie Index
Beauty and the Beast
Joe the Lion
Heroes
Sons of the Silent Age
Blackout
V2 Schneider
Sense of Doubt
Moss Garden
Neukoln
Secret Life of Arabia
Key
~ tremelo/trill
b bend
r return
h hammer
p pull off
(ghost note)
/ slide up
\ slide down
: repeat

Beauty and the Beast

 Bb or Bbm (not played)
|------------------------------| 
|------------------------------| 
|------------------------------| repeat 
|------------------------------|
|1---3/4\3-3/4\3--1------------|
|----------------------3b--1---|

the only chord change seems to be to Db

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Joe The Lion 
 
Intro
  D               C               Em                D
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------| 
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------| 
|--------7-7-5---|--------5-5-3---|----------7-----|----5-7-7----5------|  
|------5-------7-|------3-------5-|----5-7/9---/9-9|5/7-------5/7--7-7--| 
|5-5-8-----------|3-3-6-----------|7-7-------------|-------------------5|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------|
|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------|
|7---5~----------|5---3~----------|8---7---5~------|7p5-------7---------|
|---------7~-----|---------5~-----|----------------|----7~------7~------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------------|


|G                      |                     |
    Joe       the    lion            

|Em                     |                     |
   went   to  the    bar
 
|B                      |                     | 
     A couple of drinks on the house and he 

|B                      |             (Eb)    |
said   Tell you who you are if you nail me to my 

|D   intro              |                     |
 car

|C                      |                     |

|Em                     |                     |
 Boy                   thanks for hesitating  

|D                      |                     |
  this is the kiss off

|D                      |                     |
            Boy           thanks for hesitating

|C                      |                     |
   You'll never know the real story

|Em                     |                     |
                    Just a couple of dreams 

|D                      |                     |
 You get up and sleep              You can buy 

 C or G                   C/G or G
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|4/5.-5---4-5-----------|----4------------------|
|-------------5~------5.|4/5---5-4-5~-----------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
God                 It's Monday      you slither
down the greasy pipe    So far so good no one 
saw you         Hobble over any freeway
You will be like your dreams......... tonight

|Gsus         G         |                       |
                           You get up and sleep   

|Esus         E         |                       |
                 You get up and sleep    Joe the

|Bsus         B         |                       |
 lion                       

|                       |                       |                  
 Made of iron

|D                      |                       |
                              Joe the lion            

|C                      |                       |
 went to the bar            A couple of drinks 
 
|Em                     |                       | 
 on the house and he was a fortune teller he said 

|D                      |                       |
  Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

|D
  Joe the lion yeah yeah  (etc)
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Heroes                                   bass
Acoustic see below                       g----------------------------
                                         d-0-0-----0-------0-----0---- 
|:D                 |                 |  a-----2-0-----2-0---2-0---2-0
                                         e----------------------------

                                         g----------------------------
|G                  |                :|  d---------------------------- 
                                         a-----2-0-----2-0---2-0---2-0
                                         e-3-3-----3-------3-----3----
|D                  |                  |
 I                            I will be 

|G                  |                  |
 king                            And you..

|D                  |                  |
...                          You will be

|G                  |    b----8-7---8-7|
                    |    g--------7----|
 queen                           Though 

|C       --8-7---8-7|---------8-7---8-7|
-9--     ------7----|9------------7----|
 nothing                 will drive them

|D                  |       --8-7---8-7|
-7--                        ------7----|
 away                            we can 

|Am        8-7---8-7|Em      -8-7---8-4|
-5--       ----7-----4-      -----7----
 beat them                  just for one
 
|D                  |                  |
-2--
 day                          We can be

|C                  |G/B               |(Not sure of this chord, could be G)
 heroes                    just for one

|D/A                |b--7b--r--        |
 day

Next verse as above

Then after "What you say?" with the D and C chords something like

|e-5~-------------3-5/7\5--5\3/5-5/7-5~---3-5/7\5-5~

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Heroes Acoustic Transcribed by Alan Hyde
 A        D
I, I will be king
   A             D
And you, you will be queen
  G                       A
Though nothing will drive them away
     Em          Bm           A
We can beat them, just for one day
            G     D           A
We can be Heroes, just for one day
    A              D
And you, you can be mean
    A              D
And I, I'll drink all the time
    A                       D
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
    A                        D
Yes we're lovers, and that is that
    G                      A
Though nothing, will keep us together
                Em  Bm          A
We could steal time, just for one day
           G      D           A
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?
 
Etc Etc and so on :¬)
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Sons Of The Silent Age

|A        |Bb        |B        |C    D    |G 10th pos                  |
                                                Sons of the silent age

|F 8th pos
Stand on platforms blank looks and note books

|G
Sit in back rows of city limits      lay in

|F
 bed coming and going on easy terms

|G
        Sons of the silent age

|F
 Pace their rooms like a cell's dimensions  Rise for a

|G
 year or two then make war Search through their 

|F
 one inch thoughts  Then decide it couldn't be done

|Eb              |D            |Db            |C            |
 Baby,      I'll never let you go        All I see is all I 

|Ab               |Bb          |Eb    
 know, let's take another way down, sons of sound and sons of sound

Baby, baby, I'll never let you down
I can't stand another sound
Let's find another way in, sons of sound and sons of sound

Back to intro

Outro  |Eb          |B          |Ab          |Eb           | 
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Blackout (Needs help)
Intro
|Am x2      |G x2       |Fmaj7 x2    |Esus4  x2   |E  x4     |

 D                D                G
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|8---7-8-7-------|8---7-8-7-------|----------------|----------------|
|7---7-7-7-------|7---7-7-7-------|----------------|----------------|
|7---7-7-7-------|7---7-7-7-------|5---------------|5---------------|
|5---5-5---------|5---5-5---------|5---------------|5---------------|
|----------------|----------------|3---------------|3-------------oh|
you,              you walk on past Your lips cut a smile on your face
                                           Your scalding face, to the 
|D                |A               |G
 cage,             to the cage      She was a beauty in a cage

|D                |D               |G
Too,         too high a price to drink rotting wine from your hands
                                                     your fearful hands

|D
Get me to a doctor's I've been told
|A
Someone's back in town the chips are down
|G
I just cut and blackout, I'm under Japanese influence and my honour's at stake

|G              |                 |A               |                   |
                The weather's grim  ice on the cages  me I'm Robin Hood and 
|F              |                 |Esus4           |E                  |
I puff on my cigarette Panthers are steaming, stalking, screaming
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V2 Schneider
|bass-----------
|---------------
|----------------------
|0-1-3-3-3-0---3---3---repeat

|G       |G      |G/F     |G/F     |G/E     |G/E     |G/Eb     |G/Eb     |x2


Sense of Doubt

|---------------------------12-----13----
|---------------------------12-----13----
|---------------------------13-----14----
|----------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------
|3-2-1-0-------3-2-1-0-------------------

|---------------------------5-------7---7-10---10----12--
|---------------------------6-------8--8-------------12--
|---------------------------5-------7-7--------------13--
|--------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------
|3-2-1-0-------3-2-1-0-----------------------------------


Moss Garden
 
|--------1-1-0-1------------
|------3--------------------
|----2----------------------
|--2------------------------
|0--------------------------
|---------------------------

too hard


Neukoln

hold f note then repeat

|9-8----------9-8-------------             ----------------------------
|-----------------------------             ----------------------------
|----10~----------9~------8~--             ----------------------------
|--------------------------- sax comes in  ----------------------------
|-----------------------------             --------4-3-----------------
|-----------------------------             -----------3~--------3-1~---



Secret Life of Arabia
Strum away in Dm (5th pos 4 bars) with fill
|5---------------------   -5-
|--8-5-----------8-5~--   -5-
|------7-5---5-7-------   -5-
|----------7-----------   -5-
|----------------------  Am7/G
|----------------------
                     The

|Am7/G      |         |Dm          |Dm           | 
se......cret life of   Ara  b  ia

|Bb              |G             |C              |A7              |
Secret secrets   never seen       Secret secrets ever green

intro

|Dm                              |G                        |
I was running at the speed of light

|Dm                              |                         |
 From morning thoughts and fantasies

|Dm                                 
 Then I saw your eyes at the cross fades

|Bb              |G             |C              |A7              |
Secret secrets   never seen       Secret secrets ever green

Intro

|Am7/G        |        |Dm          |Dm           | 
se......cret life of   Ara  b  ia             Never

|Bb          |G            |C          |A7        |
here   Never seen   Secret life   Ever  green

Intro 

|Am7/G        |        |Dm          |Dm           | 
se......cret life of   Ara  b  ia              You

|Bb                    |G                  |
must see the movie the sand in my eyes    I

|C                                 |A7                      |
walk through a desert song when the heroine dies

|Dm            |Dm         |
                        Ar..

|:Am7/G          |Am7/G       |Dm           |Dm       :|
  .abia      secret, secret                        Ar..

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