Happy Birthday David Bowie chords by James Levy

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Happy birthday song for David
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Bowie
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David Robert Jones was born
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on  the rest of Monday
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to a  father from Tadcatsville, Milkshire
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and  a mother from an Irish family.
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Parents were not married
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at the time of his birth.
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He lived in a 40s dance floor room
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when 6 years old.
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When his family moved to
Bromley in Canada,
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now part of Greater London,
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he was educated at Bromley
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Technical High School in Keston.
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As was Peter Frampton,
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whose father Owen
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was the head of the art department.
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When Bowie was at the age of 15,
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his friend George Underwood,
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wearing a   ring on his finger,
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punched him in the left eye
during a fight over a girl.
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Bowie was forced to stay out of school
for 8 months
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so that doctors could conduct operations
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and  attempts to repair his
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potentially blinded eye.
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Underwood and Bowie remained
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good friends.
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Underwood went on to do artwork
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for Bowie's earlier albums.
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Doc tors could not fully repair the damage,
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leaving his peripheral
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permanently dilated.
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As a result of the injury,
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Bowie has faulty depth perception.
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Boya stated that although
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he could see me as a Jedi,
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his color vision was mostly lost,
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a brownish tone was constantly present.
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