the scaffold by Elton John
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro: 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
Refrão:
  A#m7              D#m                          F#/C#
Unchain the gate of solitude, the ruler says you run
                  G#/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
(Refrão)
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