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Elton John - American Triangle Chords

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American Triangle Chords

(ver. 1)
Elton John
[Intro]
Cm   G/B   Cm/Bb   Fm/Ab
G7/F   Cm/Eb   Ab   Bbsus
 
[Verse 1]
Eb               Eb/G   Bb
Seen him playing in his backyard
Ab                       Eb
 Young boy just starting out
Bb                       Cm
 So much history in this landscape
Db                          Bb
 So much confusion, so much doubt
 
[Verse 2]
Eb                     Eb/G Bb
Been there drinking on that front porch
Ab                    Eb
 Angry kids, mean and dumb
Bb                                Cm
 Looks like a painting, that blue skyline
Db         Fm/C               G/B
 God hates fags where we come from
 
[Chorus]
Ab             Eb
'Western skies' don't make it right
Bb           G/B                  Cm
'Home of the brave' don't make no sense
            G/D
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire
        Cm/Eb
Left to die on a high ridge fence
                  Fm
It's a cold, cold wind
                  Eb/G
It's a cold, cold wind
                 F7/A G/B   Cm
It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming
 
[Interlude]
G/B   Cm/Bb  Fm/Ab   G7/F   Cm/Eb   Ab6   Bbsus
 
[Verse 3]
Eb                   Bb
 See two coyotes run down a deer
Ab                       Eb
 Hate what we don't understand
Bb                        Cm
You pioneers give us your children
Db             Fm/C                    G/B
 But it's your blood that stains their hands
 
[Chorus]
Ab             Eb
'Western skies' don't make it right
Bb           G/B                  Cm
'Home of the brave' don't make no sense
            G/D
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire
        Cm/Eb
Left to die on a high ridge fence
                  Fm
It's a cold, cold wind
                  Eb/G
It's a cold, cold wind
                 F7/A G/B   Cm
It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming
 
[Bridge]
G/B                          Cm
 Somewhere that road forks up ahead
G7/F                 Cm/Eb
 To ignorance and innocence
Ab                              Bb
 Three lives drift on different winds
          G7/B             Cm      Cm/Bb
Two lives ruined, one life spent
 
[Chorus]
Ab             Eb
'Western skies' don't make it right
Bb           G/B                  Cm
'Home of the brave' don't make no sense
            G/D
I've seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire
        Cm/Eb
Left to die on a high ridge fence
                  Fm
It's a cold, cold wind
                  Eb/G
It's a cold, cold wind
                 F7/A G/B   Cm      Bb
It's a cold wind blowing, Wyoming
 
[Outro]
       Bb         Fm/Ab
It's a cold, cold wind
                  Eb/G
It's a cold, cold wind
                 F7/A G/B  Cm  Ab    Eb/Bb G7/B  Cm
It's a cold wind blow-ing, blowing, Wy-o---o-----ming
            
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