Blues Never Fade Away chords by Elton John

Cm

     Eb           Bb
He wasn't famous but I sure did love him
       Ab          Eb
I've got his picture in a little frame

      Eb       Bb        Ab       Eb
He lost his life to a big disease before it even had a name
      Fm        Bb
But there's so many more and I've lost count
   Gm         Cm
The hows and whys aren't important now
     Ab           Bb
All that matters is they came around
   Ab           Eb
And brightened up our lives

She was twenty one with her life ahead
You don't need to know her name
She breathed her last on the cold stone floor of a Hollywood arcade
But fate's right hand isn't always just
Puts a lot of pressure on your faith and trust
She was just a little girl, ain't that enough
To rage against the day


chorus:
  Ab         Eb
And how did we get so lucky
Bb           Cm     Cm/B
Targets on the rifle range
  Ab         Eb
Who makes the call and who gets to choose
Bb          Cm
Who gets to win and who gets to lose
      Ab         Eb
It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues
  G         Cm
And blues never fade away
Cm/B     Ab         Eb
Hey hey hey, colors run when the rain falls
  G          Cm
But blues never fade away


He shone so bright with a lust for life
Like the Sun King that he was
His passions hung upon his walls and were printed onto cloth
And for reasons I never understood
About the choices made between the bad and good
I've tried to figure out why
The pain never goes away

[repeat chorus]

      G         Cm
And there's marble markers and little white crosses
 G        Cm
Along the beaten path
     Ab        Eb
And I've spread their ashes on the wind
    Bb         Cm
And I miss John Lennon's laugh