SONG: The Scaffold - Elton John/Bernie Taupin
F# Ab
In Orient where wise I was
To please the way I live
Abm
Come give the beggar chance at hand
F#
His life is on his lip
Three score a thousand times
Where once in Amazon
Where Eldorado holds the key
No keeper holds my hand
Bbm Ebm
Unchain the gate of solitude
H F#
The ruler says you run
Bb Ab
Run hard unto the scaffold high
D F#
Your chance to jump the gun
F#
Oh how high the scaffold grows
Db
The plant life of your widow
F#
In black lace curtains brought you near
Db F#
From out the plate glass window
The Minotaur with bloody hands
Is enraged by the sun
Caged he by the corpses
Brought forth by the dawn
In Orient is as I told
The buckshee hangman swears
For open crypts to silence
Nylon knots to sway by prayer
In Orient where wise I was
To please the way I live
Come give the beggar chance at hand
His life is on his lip
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