Elton John – The Scaffold (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] D F#/C# C# [Verse 1]
F#
  In Orient where wise I was

G#
  To please the way I live

G#m7
  Come give the beggar chance at hand

                   F#
His life is on his lip

F#
  Three score a thousand times

      G#
Where once in Amazon

      G#m7
Where El Dorado holds the key

                   F#
No keeper holds my hand
[Pre-Chorus 1]
  A#m               D#m
Unchain the gate of solitude

                   F#/C#
The ruler says you run

                  G#/B#
Run hard unto the scaffold high

D7             F#/C#              C#
  Your chance to     jump the gun
[Chorus 1]
F#
  Oh how high the scaffold grows

    C#7                F#
The plant life of your widow

   F#
In black lace curtains brought you near

     C#7
From out the plate glass window

F#
  Oh how high the scaffold grows

    C#7                F#
The plant life of your widow

   F#
In black lace curtains brought you near

     C#7                 F#
From out the plate glass window
[Verse 2]
F#
  The Minotaur with bloody hands

   G#
Is   enraged by the sun

G#m7
  Caged he by the corpses

                     F#
Brought forth by the dawn

F#
  In Orient is as I told

    G#
The buckshee hangman swears

G#m7
  For open crypts to silence

                     F#
Nylon knots to sway by prayer
[Pre-Chorus 2]
  A#m               D#m
Unchain the gate of solitude

                   F#/C#
The ruler says you run

                  G#/B#
Run hard unto the scaffold high

D7             F#/C#              C#
  Your chance to     jump the gun
[Chorus 2]
F#
  Oh how high the scaffold grows

    C#7                F#
The plant life of your widow

   F#
In black lace curtains brought you near

     C#7
From out the plate glass window

F#
  Oh how high the scaffold grows

    C#7                F#
The plant life of your widow

   F#
In black lace curtains brought you near

     C#7                 F#
From out the plate glass window
[Outro]
F#
  In Orient where wise I was

   G#
To please the way I live

   G#m7
Come    give the beggar chance at hand

                   F#
His life is on his lip