D D F#/C# F#/C# C# C#
F# G#
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live.
G#m7 F#
Come give the beggar chance at hand his life is on his lip.
G#
Three score a thousand times where once in Amazon.
G#m7 F#
Where El Dorado holds the key no keeper holds my hand.
CHORUS:
Bbm7 Ebm F#/C#
Unchain the gate of solitude, the ruler says you run.
Ab/C D7 F#/C# C#
Run hard unto the scaffold high - your chance to - jump the gun.
F# C#7 F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow.
C#7 F#
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window.
F# C#7 F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow.
C#7 F#
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window.
F# G#
The Minotaur with bloody hands is - enraged by the sun.
G#m7 F#
Caged he by the corpses brought forth by the dawn.
G#
In Orient is as I told the buckshee hangman swears.
G#m7 F#
For open crypts to silence nylon knots to sway by prayer.
F# G#
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live.
G#m7 F#
Come give the beggar chance at hand - his life is on his lip.
The Scaffold chords
by Elton John
