Your Song
Elton John
Key: Eb
(for guitar, capo 1st fret, transpose to D chord structure)
[Intro]
Eb Ab/Eb Bb/Eb Ab/Eb
[Verse]
Eb AbM7 Bb/D Gm
It's a little bit funny this feeling insi-i-ide
Cm Cm/Bb Cm/Ab Ab
I'm not one of those who can easily hi-i-i-ide
Eb/Bb Bb G/B Cm
don't have much money but, boy if I did
Eb Fm7 Ab Bb
I'd buy a big house where, we both could live
Eb AbM7 Bb/D Gm
If I was a sculptor, heh, but then again, no
Cm Cm/Bb Cm/A AbM7
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling sho-o-o-ow, I
Eb/Bb Bb G/B Cm
know it's not mu-uch, but it's the best I can do-o-o
Eb Fm7 Ab Eb Ebsus Eb
My gift is my song and, this one's for you
[Chorus]
Bb/D Cm Fm7 Ab
And you can tell everybody, this is your so-o-ong
Bb/D Cm Fm7 Ab
It may be quite simple bu-u-ut, now that it's do-o-one
Cm Cm/Bb
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind,
Cm/A Ab
that I put down in words
Eb/G Cm/Ab Ab Bb
How wonderful life is, while you're in the world
[Intro instrumental]
[Verse]
Eb AbM7 Bb/D Gm
I sat on the roof and kicked off the mo-o-o-oss
Cm Cm/Bb Cm/A AbM7
Well-a-few of the verse-es well-they've-got-me quite cro-o-oss
Eb/Bb Bb G/B Cm
But the sun's been quite ki-i-ind, while I wrote this so-o-ong
Eb Fm7 Ab Bb
It's for people like you tha-a-at keep it turned on
Eb Ab Bb/D Gm
So excuse me forgettin but these things I do-o-o-o
Cm Cm/Bb Cm/A Ab
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blu-u-ue
Eb/Bb Bb G/B Cm
Anyway the-thing-is, what-I-really me-e-e-ean
Eb Fm7 Ab Eb Ebsus Eb
Yours are the sweetest e-e-e---e-e-eyes I've ever seen
Cm Cm/Bb 2nd time Eb
[Chorus]
Bb/D Cm Fm7 Ab
And you can tell everybody, this is your so-o-ong
Bb/D Cm Fm7 Ab
It may be quite simple bu-u-ut, now that it's do-o-one
Cm Cm/Bb
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind,
Cm/A Ab
that I put down in words
Eb/G Fm/Ab Ab Bb
How wonderful life is, while you're in the world
Cm Cm/Bb
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind,
Cm/A Ab
that I put down in words
Eb/G Fm/Ab Ab Eb
How wonderful life is, while you're in the world
[Intro riff, bass stays on Eb]