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Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (Ver2) by Elton John

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
G   C   G   Em
G   C   G   Em

Verse:
Am                    C                                 G/B   D
   Captain Fantastic,   raised and regimented, hardly a hero
     D           C/E          D/F#
Just someone his mother might know
Am                G/B      Dm7                 G
   Very clearly a case for     corn flakes and classics
C                                Cm
   "Two teas both with sugar please"
G         Em/D         Em
   In the back of an alley

Verse:
Am                            C
   While little Dirt Cowboys,   turned brown in their saddles
C  G/B  Am  G   D             Dsus4    C/E       D/F#
Sweet chocolate biscuits. And red rosy apples in summer
         Am           G/B       Dm7                   G
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?"

Verse:
Am                    C
   Brown Dirt Cowboy,   still green and growing
C          G/B  Am  G   D
City slick Captain
   Dsus4
Fantastic the feedback
C/E                            D/F#
   The honey the hive could be holding
            Am          G/B             Dm7                    G
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

Chorus:
Em                                                   C F C  C F C  C F C  C F C
   For cheap easy meals, are hardly a home on the range
Em                                                       C F C  C F C  C F C  C F C
   Too hot for the band, with a desperate desire for change
G                      C
   We've thrown in the towel too many times
G              C
   Out for the count and when we're down
G             C              G            C
   Captain Fantastic and the   Brown Dirt Cowboy
         Bb            C                G
From the    end of the world to your town

Interlude:
G   C   G   Em

Verse:
Am                             C
   And all this talk of Jesus,   coming back to see us
C    G/B    Am     G      D
Mmm, mmmmm, couldn't fool us
Dsus4                           C/E                     D/F#
   For we were spinning out our lines, walking on the wire
Am                   G/B              Dm7
   Hand in hand went music and the rhyme
    G               C                      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

Double Chorus:
Em                                                   C F C  C F C  C F C  C F C
   For cheap easy meals, are hardly a home on the range
Em                                                       C F C  C F C  C F C  C F C
   Too hot for the band, with a desperate desire for change
G                      C
   We've thrown in the towel too many times
G              C
   Out for the count and when we're down
G             C              G            C
   Captain Fantastic and the   Brown Dirt Cowboy
         Bb            C                G
From the    end of the world to your town

G                      C
   We've thrown in the towel too many times
G              C
   Out for the count and when we're down
G             C              G            C
   Captain Fantastic and the   Brown Dirt Cowboy
         Bb            C                G
From the    end of the world to your town

Outro:
G   C   G   Em
G   C   G   Em
G   C   G   Em