Someone saved my life tonight    (video)    (midi)

 

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    G                                       C           G       - C

1.      When I think of those East End lights,        muggy nights,

     G                               F                        C

    curtains drawn in the little room downstairs,

       F                                               G

    Prima Donna Lord, you really should have been there,

        F                              G                     C

    sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair.

                 Cm                                                    A7

    And it’s one more beer and I don’t hear you anymore,

               C

    we’ve all gone crazy lately,

            A7                                                 G                      - D

    my friends out there rolling round the basement floor.

 

C                                         G               Am

    And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear,

G - C                                     G                 Am

          you almost had your hooks in me, didn’t you, dear ?

          G       C                           G     C                 A7

You nearly had me roped and tied, altar bound, hypnotized.

              G                                                          A7

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you’re a butterfly,

         C                                   A7

and butterflies are free to fly, fly away,

 G               A7   C     G   Am     - G - F

high away, bye bye, ooh ooh.                               +  G - C - G - C

 

    G                                 C            G      - C

2.     Never realized the passing hours          of evening showers,

     G                           F                        C

    slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams.

             F                                       G

    It’s strangled by your haunted social scene,

     F                        G                        C

    just a pawn out-played by a dominating Queen.

          Cm                                                    A7

    It’s four o’clock in the morning, damn it, listen to me good,

             C                                          A7

    I’m sleeping with myself tonight, saved in time,

                                           G                           D  

    thank God, my music’s still alive, ah ah ah ah ah ah.

 

C                                         G               Am

    And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear,

G - C                                     G                 Am

          you almost had your hooks in me, didn’t you, dear ?

          G       C                           G     C                 A7

You nearly had me roped and tied, altar bound, hypnotized.

              G                                                          A7

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you’re a butterfly,

         C                                   A7

and butterflies are free to fly, fly away,

 G               A7   C     G   Am     - G - F

high away, bye bye, ooh ooh.                              +  G - C - G - C

 

   Am                               C                                    G    

+      And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river,

     A7                                                                     C

    clinging to your stocks and bonds, paying your H.P. demands forever.

Am                         C                    G

    Coming in the morning with a truck to take me home,

A7                                                  - C

    someone saved my life tonight,       someone saved my life tonight,

A7                                                  - C

    someone saved my life tonight,        someone saved my life tonight,

A7                                                        C

    someone saved my life tonight, so save your strength

                                       A7

    and run the field you play alone.

 

+  CHORUS              +  G - C - G - C

 

   G

+     Someone saved, someone saved,

                                     C

    someone saved my life tonight. (6x) .....

 

(orig. = capo 1st; midi = no capo)    (Elton John)