Candle in the wind (midi)

C F

1. Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all,

C F

you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled.

C F

They crawled out of the woodwork and they whispered into your brain,

C F

they set you on a treadmill, and they made you change your name.

G G7 C - F

And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind,

C G

never knowing who to cling to, when the rain set in.

F Am

And I would have liked to know you, but I was just a kid,

G F - C

your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.

- G C F

2. Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played,

C F

Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

C F

And even when you died, oh, the press still hounded you,

C F

all the papers had to say, was that Marilyn was found in the nude.

+ CHORUS

- G C F

3. Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all,

C F

you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled.

C F

Goodbye Norma Jean, from a young man in the twenty second row,

C

who sees you as something more than sexual,

F

more than just our Marilyn Monroe. + CHORUS +

G F - C

your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.

(orig. = capo 4th) (Elton John)