Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Elton John
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Tom: A (com forma de Bb)
Afinação: 1/2 tom abaixo
Intro: Ab Db (2x)
Verse 1:
Ab
When I think of those East End lights
Db
Muggy nights
Ab Bbm
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
Gb Ab
Prima Donna lord you really should have been there
Gb Ab Db
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
C#m
And it's one more beer
Bb7
And I don't hear you anymore
Db
We've all gone crazy lately
Bb7 Ab
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor
Eb
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Db Ab Bbm Ab
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
Db Ab Bbm
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
Db Ab
You nearly had me roped and tied
Db Bb7
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Ab
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
Bbm
You're a butterfly
Db
And butterflies are free to fly
Bb7 Ab
Fly away, high away bye bye
Db Ab Bbm Gb
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Intro: Ab Db (2x)
Verse 2:
Ab
I never realized the passing hours
Db
Of evening showers
Ab Bbm
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
Gb Ab
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Gb Ab Db
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
C#m
It's four o'clock in the morning
Bb7
Damn it listen to me good
Db
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Bb7 Ab
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive
Eb
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Back To Chorus
Intro: Ab Db (2x)
Bridge:
Bbm Ab
And I would have walked head on into the deep end the river
Cm7 Eb
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Db
Paying your H.P. demands forever
Bbm Ab
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
Cm7 Db
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Cm7 Db
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Cm7
Someone saved my life tonight
Db Bb7
So save your strength and run the field you play alone
Back To Chorus Again
(Then go to the ending)
Ending:
Do Intro throughout this part Ab & Db|-------6 times and fade
Ab Db
Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight
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