Year: 1996 - Album: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Written by Elton John/Bernie Taupin
G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em Am7 Bm C C G D Captain Fantastic raised and regimented, hardly a hero G C D Just someone his mother might know Am7 G Dm7 G7 Very clearly a case for corn flakes and classics C Cm "Two teas both with sugar please" G Eb7 Em In the back of an alley Am7 C While little Dirt Cowboys turned brown in their saddles G D G C/E D/F# Sweet chocolate biscuits and red rosy apples in summer Am G Dm7 G7 For it's hay make and "Hey mom, do the papers say anything good? C Cm Are there chances in life for little Dirt Cowboys? G Bb C G Should I make my way out of my home in the woods?" Am7 G/B C Brown Dirt Cowboy, still green and growing G D7 City slick Captain G/D Fantastic the feedback C/E D The honey the hive could be holding Am7 G/B Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 For there's weak winged young sparrows that starve in the winter C Cm Broken young children on the wheels of the winners G Bb C G And the sixty-eight summer festival wallflowers are thinning Em C F C F C F C F For cheap easy meals are hardly a home on the range Em C F C F C F C F Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change G C G We've thrown in the towel too many times C G Out for the count and when we're down C G C Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy G Bb C G From the end of the world to your town G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em Am7 G/B C And all this talk of Jesus coming back to see us G D7 Mmmmmhmmmm, Couldn't fool us G/D C/E D For we were spinning out our lines walking on the wire Am7 G/B D7 Hand in hand went music and the rhyme G7 D7 G7 D7 Cm The Captain and the Kid stepping in the ring G Bb C G From here on sonny sonny sonny, it's a long and lonely climb Em C F C F C F C F For cheap easy meals are hardly a home on the range Em C F C F C F C F Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change G C G We've thrown in the towel too many times C G Out for the count and when we're down C G C Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy G Bb C G From the end of the world to your town G C G We've thrown in the towel too many times C G Out for the count and when we're down C G C Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy G Bb C G From the end of the world to your town G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em G Am G/B C D/G D/F# Em