MUSESTAR
Candle In The Wind
Elton John
Difficulty: novice
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: none
[Verse]
[E] [A]
Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all
[E]
You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you
[A]
crawled
[E] [A]
They crawled out of the woodwork and they whispered into your
brain
[E]
They sent you on a treadmill and they made you change your
[A]
name
[Chorus]
[B] [B7]
And it seems to me you lived your life
[E] [A]
Like a candle in the wind
[E] [B]
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in
[A] [C#m]
And I would have liked to’ve known you but I was just a kid
[B] [A] [A] [G#m]
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did
[F#m] [E] [B] [A] [G#m] [F#m] [E]
[Verse]
[E] [A]
Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played
[E] [A]
Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price you paid
[E] [A]
And even when you died, oh, the press still hounded you
[E]
All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the
[A]
nude
[Chorus]
[B] [B7]
And it seems to me you lived your life
[E] [A]
Like a candle in the wind
[E] [B]
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in
[A] [C#m]
And I would have liked to’ve known you but I was just a kid
[B] [A] [A] [G#m]
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did
[F#m] [E] [B] [A] [G#m] [F#m] [E]
[Verse]
[E] [A]
Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all
[E] [A]
You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you
crawled
[E] [A]
Goodbye Norma Jean, from a young man in the twenty second row
[E]
Who sees you as something more than sexual, more than just our
[A]
Marilyn Monroe
[Chorus]
[B] [B7]
And it seems to me you lived your life
[E] [A]
Like a candle in the wind
[E] [B]
Never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in
[A] [C#m]
And I would have liked to’ve known you but I was just a kid
[B] [A] [A] [G#m]
Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did
[F#m] [E] [B] [A] [G#m] [F#m] [E]