Japanese Hands chords by Elton John

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb AbAb Bb majorBb X2

Verse:
  Eb/GEb/G
Outside I can hear the fireworks
 F/GF/G
beyond the paper walls.
     Eb/GEb/G
Where the symbols painted black and white
 F/GF/G            DmDm
run together when the rain falls.
    Eb/GEb/G
And the wind chimes across Kyoto each
F/GF/G
time the earth moves.
  Eb/GEb/G
Was it the quake that shook me or was it
F/GF/G       DmDm
something to do with you?

Chorus:
    Eb MajorEb         FF
And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds.
     Eb MajorEb     FF
And your almond eyes always shine.
     Bb majorBb           Eb/GEb/G
Sitting cool behind your painted fan.
    DbDb
All the secrets of the east conceal the
 Eb MajorEb
beauty and the beast.
   Bb majorBb      Eb MajorEb
For tender is the man
 FF          Bb majorBb
in her Japanese hands.

Verse:
Eb/GEb/G                  F/GF/G
Flesh on silk looks different than on a
 F/GF/G
cotton sheet back home.
   Eb/GEb/G
Where no one wears their hair like yours
  F/GF/G      DmDm
beneath those oriental combs.
       Eb/GEb/G
And with your thirsty fingers running
 F/GF/G
up and down my spine,
    Eb/GEb/G
You forget the western woman when you're
 F/GF/G      DmDm
sleeping on Kyoto time.

Chorus:
    Eb MajorEb         FF
And the hot wind heats the bamboo blinds.
     Eb MajorEb     FF
And your almond eyes always shine.
     Bb majorBb           Eb/GEb/G
Sitting cool behind your painted fan.
    DbDb
All the secrets of the east conceal the
 Eb MajorEb
beauty and the beast.
   Bb majorBb      Eb MajorEb
For tender is the man
 FF          Bb majorBb
in her Japanese hands.

    Bb majorBb
And the sky explodes.  And the moon grows cold.
Eb/BbEb/Bb             Bb majorBb
    To the distant sound of drums.
    Bb majorBb           AbAb
And the sky explodes.  And the moon grows cold.
    C minorCm                FF
As the dragons on the mainland wait to heat the sun.


Eb/BbEb/Bb  F/Bb       Bb majorBb   Eb/BbEb/Bb  F/Bb       Bb majorBb