Chords for Elton John - Have Mercy On The Criminal (Live in Sydney with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 1986) HD

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ We're gonna do a song [F] when Buckmaster did these arrangements in the 70s, early 70s.
[Am] I suppose he gained a lot of his influence [Abm] from George Martin and people like that.
[A] But some of these arrangements he just didn't do with [N] interaction in those days.
And this is a prime example of his writing for an orchestra.
It's called Have Mercy on the Criminals.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ Have you [G] heard of the dog at night?
_ [Cm] Somewhere _ [Fm] on the hill
_ _ _ She's [Ab] in song for [Cm] criminals
_ And I guess they're out [G] to kill
Oh, _ _ _ _ [C] there must be shackles [G] on his feet
[Bb] And murder in [Fm] his eyes _ _
_ Stumbling through [Cm] the devil's door
With a hound back in [G] for a cry _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Have mercy _ [Bb] on the criminals
_ [Gm] [Cm] Who will run and run the law
Are _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ you blind?
[Bb] You do entertain
[Gm] [Eb] Don't you hear [C] how many walls
[Gm] She [Cm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ ain't alive, you gotta hear me
Gonna _ [F] _ _ snap _ _ _ [Ab] _ these [C] chains [Ab] from around my leg
[G] Sweet Jesus, I feel [C] your pain
_ Now _ [G] _ _
[C] have you ever seen [G] the white teeth gleam
[Bb] While you lie on a [Eb] cold [Ab] damp ground _ _
_ Taken in the face [Cm] of a rival bird
While the warden's [G] holding down _ _
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[G] Seen a friend in you
[Eb] Your _ heart [Fm] just gone
_ _ You've dropped [Ab] the wall [Cm] of a dark front wing
The pain's gonna [G] be your home
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[Ab] Have mercy _ [Bb] on the criminals _
[Cm] Who will run and run [C] the law
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[Ab] _ Are you blind?
[Bb] You do entertain
Don't [Cm] you hear how [C] many walls
[Cm] She _ _ _
[Ab] _ ain't alive, you gotta hear me _ _
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[Cm] _ [C] Take these chains [Ab] from around my leg
[G] Sweet Jesus, I feel [C] your pain
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ _ Through [Bb] the winter's end
Don't [Cm] you hear how many walls _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] She ain't alive, you gotta hear me
_ _ _ [F] _ [Fm] Gonna snap again
_ _ [Ab] _ Take [Eb] these chains from [Ab] around my leg
[G] Sweet Jesus, I feel your [C] pain
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