Someone Saved My Life Tonight chords by Elton John (Ver. 3)

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" (Capo: 4th. fret)

_____Intro:

E/B A (2 times)

_____Verse: 1

E/B          A    E   A
 When I think of those east end lights, muggy nights
   E/G#         D/F#      A
 The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
 D              E
 Prima donna, lord you really should have been there
 D             E        A
 Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
     Am                 F#
 And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore
     A
 We've all gone crazy lately
  F#/Bb                 E/B        B7
 My friends out there rollin' round the basement floor. Ooh______

_____Chorus:

A           E/G#     F#m7         E/G#
 And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear___)
A          E/G#     F#m7
 You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear
   E/G#  A         E/G#
 You nearly had me roped and tied
 A      F#7/Bb
 Altar-bound, hypnotized,
     E/B
 Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
     F#/Bb
 You're a butterfly
   A
 And butterflies are free to fly
 F#7/Bb  E/B    Ab A
 Fly away, high away, bye bye
 E/G# F#m7 E D

_____Intro:

E/B A (2 times)

_____Verse: 2

E/B          A    E  A
 I never realized the passing hours of evening showers,
  E/G#        D/F#      A
 A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
   D             E
 I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
 D            E       A
 Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
   Am
 It's four o'clock in the morning
     F#
 Damn it! Listen to me good
   A
 I'm sleeping with myself tonight
 F#/Bb                 E/B       B7
 Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive, Oh________

_____Chorus:

A           E/G#     F#m7               E/G#
 And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear, sugar bear___)
A          E/G#     F#m7
 You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear
   E/G#  A         E/G#
 You nearly had me roped and tied
 A      F#7/Bb
 Altar-bound, hypnotized,
     E/B
 Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
     F#/Bb
 You're a butterfly
   A
 And butterflies are free to fly
 F#7/Bb  E/B    Ab A
 Fly away, high away, bye bye
 E/G# F#m7 E D

_____Intro:

E/B A (2 times)

_____Bridge:

F#7                    E/G#
 And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
 C#m/Ab
 Clinging to your stocks and bonds
       A/E
 Paying your H.P. demands forever
F#m7                  E/G#
 They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
C#m/Ab            A/E
 Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
C#m/Ab            A/E
 Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
C#m/Ab
 Someone saved my life tonight
  A/E                   F#7
 So save your strength and run the field you play alone

_____Chorus:

A           E/G#     F#m7               E/G#
 And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear, sugar bear___)
A          E/G#     F#m7
 You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear
   E/G#  A         E/G#
 You nearly had me roped and tied
 A      F#7/Bb
 Altar-bound, hypnotized,
     E/B
 Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
     F#/Bb
 You're a butterfly
   A
 And butterflies are free to fly
 F#7/Bb  E/B    Ab A
 Fly away, high away, bye bye
 E/G# F#m7 E D

_____Intro:

E/B A (2 times)

_____Coda:

E/B
 Someone saved, someone saved
           A
 Someone saved my life tonight (Someone saved my life tonight) (Repeat coda to fade)