BURN DOWN THE MISSION

Year:  1971
Album:  TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

(G  Em7  Bb\C   G  Em7  Bb\C)*


    G		       Em	     Bb\C
You tell me there's an angel in your tree

Eb		G\D	        A\C#  Dsus4
Did he say he'd come to call on me

G			Em7sus4         Bb\C
For things are getting desperate in our home

	      C#dim7	    G\D	     D	     C G\B Am7
Living in the parish of the restless folks I know


G	      F			 C		  G   G G A B  D E
Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside

F			  C		    G    G A B  D
Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

  G\B		     C		 	G      G A C  D
Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

     G		     C6\G		  Bb\C
It's time we put the flame torch to their keep

Bb\C


C#	      Ab
Burn down the mission

F#
If we're gonna stay alive

C#		      Ab
Watch the black smoke fly to heaven

	F#
See the red flame light the sky


Eb\Bb	      Bb
Burn down the mission

	Ab
Burn it down to stay alive

	 Eb\Bb		Bb
It's our only chance of living

	     Ab		    C#   Bb\C
Take all you need to live inside

[F  Eb\Bb  Bb\F  F
(REPEAT 3x)

F  Eb Bb\D  F\C  Bb F\A Eb\G

F  Eb Bb\D  F\C  Bb F\A Eb\G

G  F C\E  G\D  C  G\B C

G  F C\E  G\D  C  G\B C]**


Bb\C  C#\Ab  Bbm Bbm6  F\C  F\A  Bb\C  Bb
      Oh______________________!

(G  Em7  Bb\C   G  Em7  Bb\C)*  


	    G	      Em		  Bb\C
Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today

Eb			G\D  		 A\C#  Dsus4
My wife cried when they came to take me away

G		      Em7sus4             Bb\C
But what more could I do just to keep her warm

     C#dim7		 G\D	  D	  C    G\B Am7 G
Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls

(CHORUS)

F  Eb Bb\D  F\C  Bb F\A Eb\G

F  Eb Bb\D  F\C  Bb F\A Eb\G

G  F C\E  G\D  C  G\B C

G  F C\E  G\D  C  G\B C]**


(G\C  F\C C  G)**
(REPEAT, FADE)


*FIRST TIME THROUGH:
Lower case letters are played as octaves, upper case letters as chords:

G  G A D  D E Bb     Bb  Bb  Bb
G      Em     C   C C   C    C