Blues Never Fade Away chords by Elton John

Chords with lyrics

C minorCm

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

      Eb MajorEb       Bb majorBb        AbAb       Eb MajorEb
He lost his life to a big disease before it even had a name
      F minorFm        Bb majorBb
But there's so many more and I've lost count
   G minorGm         C minorCm
The hows and whys aren't important now
     AbAb           Bb majorBb
All that matters is they came around
   AbAb           Eb MajorEb
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:
  AbAb         Eb MajorEb
And how did we get so lucky
Bb majorBb           C minorCm     Cm/B
Targets on the rifle range
  AbAb         Eb MajorEb
Who makes the call and who gets to choose
Bb majorBb          C minorCm
Who gets to win and who gets to lose
      AbAb         Eb MajorEb
It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues
  G+G         C minorCm
And blues never fade away
Cm/B     AbAb         Eb MajorEb
Hey hey hey, colors run when the rain falls
  G+G          C minorCm
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+G         C minorCm
And there's marble markers and little white crosses
 G+G        C minorCm
Along the beaten path
     AbAb        Eb MajorEb
And I've spread their ashes on the wind
    Bb majorBb         C minorCm
And I miss John Lennon's laugh