Chords for Elton John-1973 sessions at the Chateau-Danny Bailey

_ posed and recorded most of his albums in France, in a partially derelict chateau
in the small village of Ayreville, some 50 kilometers outside Paris.
And it's
indeed odd to find tomorrow's music being made in yesterday's crumbling
splendor.
Here, in very Spartan conditions, he and the group lead a strange
monastic existence for the best part of a month, working by night and sleeping by
day. _
Within these historic walls, _ a far cry from Timpanale, Top of the Pops, and
the multi-million dollar razzmatazz of the record industry, _ tomorrow's hits are
being forged in splendid isolation.
_ _ There is a scent of fresh mown grass outside,
but not a suspicion of it inside, _ for Elton John lives deliberately apart from
the mainstream of _ current pop philosophy.
And this withdrawal is deliberate and
inconsiderate.
_ Inside the chateau at the moment, there is a lot of talent, and many
thousand pounds worth of very sophisticated electronic equipment. _ _
[A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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Some punk with a shotgun _ [B] killed young Danny Bailey.
_ _ [A#m]
In cold blood, in the lobby [B] of a [G#m] downtown [B] _ motel.
_ _ [A#m] _
_ Killed him in [C#] anger, _ [B] a force he couldn't _ handle.
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_ _ _ The thing that gives me most pleasure is [F] writing a song, visualizing how it will
sound in a recording studio, then going to [D#] the recording studio and hearing it finish
[D#m] saying, and that gives me [G#] a lot of satisfaction.
[F#] Playing it live is another [C#] kettle of fish.
We [B] have to break up our deal, _
[A#m] _ so mark his [C#] grave well.
[B] _ _ Kentucky loves him, [D#m] _
_ born and raised a proper_
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I'm sorry [D#m] about the_
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He'll [F#] understand.
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