Elton John – Empty Garden (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# David Waller has submitted this song already, with a specific reguest for an update. Trish Leblanc has supplied the complete lyrics. The following is in the key of E, the same as EJ's performance. transcribed by Lorne Chisholm
A
What happened here
E As the New York sunset disappeared
			  B					    C#m
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there

    A
Who lived here

						   E
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot

							B
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop

				C#m
And now it all looks strange

			    B/A	A	    B			    E
It's funny how one in-    sect can damage so much grain

    A
And what's it for

						 E
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
B
	   C#m
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more

    A
Who lived here

						   E
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot

							B
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop

		    C#m						B/A  A
And we are so amazed we're crippled and we're dazed

			 B				E
A gardener like that one no one can replace

		    A				   E
And I've been knocking but no one answers

		    A					C#m  (G#m  C#m)
And I've been knocking most all the day

			  F#m				C#m
Oh and I've been calling oh hey hey Johnny

			A  B	    E
Can't you come out   to play

    A
And through their tears

						E
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
B
		    C#m
But he'd have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear

     A
Who lived there

						   E
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot

						     B
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop

			 C#m						 B/A  A
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls

   B                  E
We hear, we hear your name
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
F#m     A				    B				   E
Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden
(repeat last line and fade)