Chords for Elton John- Empty Garden (Live 1999)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
I don't normally do this next song very often because I find it very upsetting sometimes to sing about it because
It's about a friend of [G] mine.
He's no longer with us
_ _ But singers were coming to the end of the millennium and a new new century
It would be churlish for me not to pay tribute
To this man who was one of my idols who wrote so many great songs contributed so much to humanity while he was alive
This is a song about John Lennon
And it's called empty garden _ what happened?
_ _ _ as New York Sun [D] said
_ _ _ Disappear I found an empty [A] _ garden _ _
Among the [Bm] flagstones there _
_ _ _ _ [G] Who lived here?
He must have been a gardener [D] that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears [A] and grew a good crop?
_ _ all [Bm]
extreme
_ _ It's [B] funny how [G] an _ _ insect _ _ _
[A] _ Damaged _ _ so much [D] grain
_ [G] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] Watched it fall this little empty garden by [D] the brownstone [Em] door
[D] _
And then the cracks along [A] the side wall
_ Nothing grows no [Bm] _ _
more
_ _ _ _ [G] He _ _ _ must have been a [D] gardener that cared a lot
_ Weeded out the tears and [A] grew a good crop
_ And we are so [Bm] _ amazed
_ We're crippled and [G] we're damned
_ _ A gardener like [A] that _ one no one can [D] _ _ [G] replace
_ [D] _
_ Nothing [G] no king _ but no one [D] _ _ [G] answers
[D] _ _ Nothing [G] _ no king
_ _ _ _ [Bm] No gardener _
_ But a [Em] gardener _ _ _ Hey
_ _ [Bm] Can't _ _ _ _ _ you [G] come _ _ _ [A] out
_ [D] To play
_ _ Through _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] the tears
Some say he farmed his best in [D] younger [G]
years
[D] But he just let the [A] rich grow stronger
_ _ If only he could [Bm] hear _
He was a gardener
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Who lived there?
He must have been a [D] gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and [A] grew a good crop
And now we pray for [Bm] _ rain
And with every drop [G] that _ _ _ falls _
We [A] hear
_ _ _ We hear [D] your _ name _ _
_ Nothing [G] no _ [C] king
[G]
But no [D] one answers _ _
_ _ [G] Nothing no king
_ Most of the [Bm] day _ _
_ When [Em] I'm calling _
_ _ _ [Bm] Hey _ Johnny
_ _ Can't you [G] come _ _
_ [A] out
_ [D] To play _
_ _ _ _ [G] Nothing no king
_ But no one [D] _
answers
_ _ _ Nothing [G] no king
_ Most of [Bm] the day
_ _ _ When I'm [Em] _
calling _ _ _ Hey
[Bm] _
Johnny
_ _ _ Can't you come [G]
out
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] To [D] play
_ _ _ [Em] _ Johnny
[G] Can't you come out [A] To play
_ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Em] Johnny
Can't [G]
you come out [A] to play
In your [D] empty garden
_ _ [Em] Johnny
_ _ [G]
Can't you come out [A] To play
In your [D] empty garden
_ [Em] In _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] your empty garden
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [A] Oh _ [D] Oh
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] Oh
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
Oh
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [A] In your empty [D]
garden _ _ [Em] Johnny
_ [G] Can't you come out to [A] play
_ In your [D]
garden _ [Em] _ Johnny
Can't [G]
you come out to [A] play
In your empty [D]
garden
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] In _ _ _ [A] _ your empty [D]
garden
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G]
Can't you come out to [A] play
in your empty [D] _ _ garden _ _ _
_ _ _ _ John _ _ _ _ _ _ Winston [N] Leonard
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