Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Elton John

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Song

Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Elton John

1975

Created by: Randy Mosier rmosier@click1.net

Intro:

(play twice )

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Verse 1

When I think of those East End lights

Muggy nights

The curtains drawn in the little room down stairs

Prima Donna lord you really should have been there

Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair

And it's one more beer

And I don't hear you anymore

We've all gone crazy lately

My friends out there rolling round the basement floor

oo oo oo oo oo oo

Chorus

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear ( sugar bea -ea

You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear

ear )

You nearly had me roped and tied

Altar-bound, hypnotized

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear

You're a butterfly

And butterflies are free to fly

Fly away, high away bye bye

Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo-oo-oo

play twice

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Verse 2

I never realized the passing hours

Of evening showers

A slip noose hanging in my darkest dre-eams

I'm strangled by your haunted social scene

Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen

It's four o'clock in the morning

Damn it listen to me good

I'm sleeping with myself tonight

A/C# [x42020] G/D

Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive

Ah ah ah ah ah-ah-ah ah-ah-ahhhh

Chorus

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear ( sugar bea -ea

You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear

ear )

You nearly had me roped and tied

Altar-bound, hypnotized

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear

You're a butterfly

And butterflies are free to fly

Fly away, high away bye bye

Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo-oo-oo

(play twice )

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B[--0--0------------------------1-1--------------------]
G[--0--0-----------0------------0-0--------------------]
D[--0--0--0--2--4-----4---2--0--2-2-----0-2-3-2--------]
A[--2--2------------------------3-3-3--------------3---]
E[--3--3------------------------3-3--------------------]

Bridge

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

Clinging to your stocks and bonds

Paying your H.P. demands forever

They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home

Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

So save your strength and run the field you play alone

Chorus

And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear ( sugar bea -ea

You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear

ear )

You nearly had me roped and tied

Altar-bound, hypnotized

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear

You're a butterfly

And butterflies are free to fly

Fly away, high away bye bye

Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo-oo-oo

(play twice )

E[--3--3------------------------0-0--------------------]
B[--0--0------------------------1-1--------------------]
G[--0--0-----------0------------0-0--------------------]
D[--0--0--0--2--4-----4---2--0--2-2-----0-2-3-2--------]
A[--2--2------------------------3-3-3--------------3---]
E[--3--3------------------------3-3--------------------]