• Song:

    Someone Saved My Life Tonight

  • Artist:

    Elton John

  • Album:

    The Very Best of Elton ...

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (Capo: 4th. fret)

_____Intro:

E/B  A  (2 times)

_____Verse: 1

E/B (443121@4)                  A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)    A (x02220@1)When I think of those east end lights, muggy nights 
     E/G# (143121@4)                D/F# (200232@1)          A (x02220@1)The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs 
 D (xx0232@1)                          E (022100@1)Prima donna, lord you really should have been there 
 D (xx0232@1)                       E (022100@1)             A (x02220@1)Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair 
          Am (x02210@1)                               F# (244322@1)And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore 
          A (x02220@1)We've all gone crazy lately 
    F#/Bb                                 E/B (443121@4)              B7 (x21202@1)My friends out there rollin' round the basement floor. Ooh______

_____Chorus:

A (x02220@1)                   E/G# (143121@4)        F#m7 (131141@2)               E/G# (143121@4)And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear___)
A (x02220@1)                  E/G# (143121@4)       F#m7 (131141@2)You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear 
     E/G# (143121@4) A (x02220@1)               E/G# (143121@4)You nearly had me roped and tied 
 A (x02220@1)          F#7/Bb
 Altar-bound, hypnotized, 
         E/B (443121@4)Sweet freedom whispered in my ear 
          F#/Bb
 You're a butterfly 
     A (x02220@1)And butterflies are free to fly 
 F#7/Bb    E/B (443121@4)      Ab (xx1114@1)A (x02220@1)
 Fly away, high away, bye bye
 E/G# (143121@4)F#m7 (131141@2)E (022100@1)D (xx0232@1)_____Intro:

E/B  A  (2 times)

_____Verse: 2

E/B (443121@4)                 A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1) A (x02220@1)I never realized the passing hours of evening showers, 
   E/G# (143121@4)             D/F# (200232@1)          A (x02220@1)A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams 
     D (xx0232@1)                        E (022100@1)I'm strangled by your haunted social scene 
 D (xx0232@1)                     E (022100@1)           A (x02220@1)Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen 
      Am (x02210@1)It's four o'clock in the morning 
          F# (244322@1)Damn it! Listen to me good 
     A (x02220@1)I'm sleeping with myself tonight 
 F#/Bb                                 E/B (443121@4)           B7 (x21202@1)Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive, Oh________

_____Chorus:

A (x02220@1)                   E/G# (143121@4)        F#m7 (131141@2)                           E/G# (143121@4)And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear, sugar bear___)
A (x02220@1)                  E/G# (143121@4)       F#m7 (131141@2)You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear 
     E/G# (143121@4) A (x02220@1)               E/G# (143121@4)You nearly had me roped and tied 
 A (x02220@1)          F#7/Bb
 Altar-bound, hypnotized, 
         E/B (443121@4)Sweet freedom whispered in my ear 
          F#/Bb
 You're a butterfly 
     A (x02220@1)And butterflies are free to fly 
 F#7/Bb    E/B (443121@4)      Ab (xx1114@1)A (x02220@1)
 Fly away, high away, bye bye
 E/G# (143121@4)F#m7 (131141@2)E (022100@1)D (xx0232@1)_____Intro:

E/B  A  (2 times)

_____Bridge:

F#7 (242352@1)                                     E/G# (143121@4)And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river 
 C#m/Ab
 Clinging to your stocks and bonds 
             A/E (002220@1)Paying your H.P. demands forever 
F#m7 (131141@2)                                  E/G# (143121@4)They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home 
C#m/Ab                        A/E (002220@1)Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight 
C#m/Ab                        A/E (002220@1)Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight 
C#m/Ab
 Someone saved my life tonight 
    A/E (002220@1)                                    F#7 (242352@1)So save your strength and run the field you play alone

_____Chorus:

A (x02220@1)                   E/G# (143121@4)        F#m7 (131141@2)                           E/G# (143121@4)And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear, sugar bear___)
A (x02220@1)                  E/G# (143121@4)       F#m7 (131141@2)You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear 
     E/G# (143121@4) A (x02220@1)               E/G# (143121@4)You nearly had me roped and tied 
 A (x02220@1)          F#7/Bb
 Altar-bound, hypnotized, 
         E/B (443121@4)Sweet freedom whispered in my ear 
          F#/Bb
 You're a butterfly 
     A (x02220@1)And butterflies are free to fly 
 F#7/Bb    E/B (443121@4)      Ab (xx1114@1)A (x02220@1)
 Fly away, high away, bye bye
 E/G# (143121@4)F#m7 (131141@2)E (022100@1)D (xx0232@1)_____Intro:

E/B  A  (2 times)

_____Coda:

E/B (443121@4)Someone saved, someone saved
                      A (x02220@1)Someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) (Repeat coda to fade)
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