Chords for Elton John - Madness (Countdown Australia)

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[E] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] Well, this week in [G] Britain, the Australians are aghast [C] at the news that the Poms are beating
us in cricket. _
They're also [G] rather aghast that this is the last [Bb] countdown for the year,
because cricket is taking over from now on until _ [F] _ February.
But to [C] bounce it off for the
New Year, we've got one of the most famous [G] people in the rock scene, Mr Elton John.
Thank you for joining us.
[Bb] It's a distinct pleasure, my boy.
People say, why have you discarded your [C] glasses?
_ _ _ _ It's not been for any [D] intentional change of image.
You know, [Ab] the papers say, oh, she's [D] had her hair done and she's had her glasses whipped off.
And _ [C] it's not like that.
I actually went scuba diving in 1976 and I couldn't see without my glasses.
You know, I thought, well, this is ridiculous.
[Dm] _ [C] And I tried contact lenses before, hard ones, and [A] I _ [D] went scuba diving and I loved it.
And I thought, well, if I'm going to improve at this, I've got to [G] get soft contact lenses.
[C] So I did.
And [C] I really loved scuba diving.
So that was the reason I got [Gm] soft contact lenses.
But I haven't got starry ones, I've got ordinary ones.
You see, I haven't got stars and stripes or [A] things like that.
But that was the reason.
It was nothing like conscious image change, as the press would have it, with my 30,000
pound [Dm] earrings and things like that.
You know, this all sounds like madness to me.
[Gm] And I'd like to say you're watching Countdown.
And tonight, [Dm] Mr Elton John is our very, very special [Bb] guest host.
[C] And what better to go into madness?
The fuse [Bb] is set [D] and checked [Dm] once more.
They're left _ [Bb] _ beside a [C] _ backstreet [Dm] _ door.
[Bb] And then [G] the _ _ [F] cold, grey light.
_ [A] _ [Bb] Someone sees a shadow run through the night.
[F] And out of the [Am] side, [A] _ _ _ [Dm] they hide _ [Bb] inside _ [D] a small, [A] little [Dm] room.
_ To hear _ [Bb] at last [C] the blast [A] of [Dm] doom.
_ [Bb] So, _ _ [C] the deed _ [F] is done.
They [Bb] listen to the final countdown begun.
_ _ [C] Three, _ _
[F] _ _ two, [A] one. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ Madness, _ _ it's a [C] kind of _ _ madness.
_ That [F] turns _ good [Eb] _ men _ [A] _ back. _
[D] _ _ And [Gm] the _ helpless _ _ caught up [C] in the _ _ _ madness _ [Dm] of a world _
[Bb] _ _ _ [A] gone _ mad.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _
The _ _ law of [Bb] fire _ [D] rings [A] out on [Dm] high.
_ And flames _ [Bb] light up _ [C] the black [D] night [Dm] sky.
_ _ [Bb] Shine, _ [D] screams out [Am] in fear. _
[Bb] A hopeless cry for help, but no one is there.
_ [F] In the _ [Am] after hell.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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[Em] As the walls _ [C] collapse _ [E] and _ timbers [Em] flare.
The smell _ of death _ hangs in the air. _
[C] And hell _ [D] at last _
[G] _ arrives.
[C] It tries to fight the flame, but nothing _ survives.
[A] All _ of the _ [Bm] lights.
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
Here.
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_ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ And it's madness.
_ _ _ Every [E] time a victim _ [Em] dies.
There is madness.
_ _ _ [E] Burning in the blind man's [D] eyes.
And [Em] it's madness.
_ [C] _ _ Hidden [E] in the hate and [D] pain.
There [Em] is madness.
_ _ _ Burning in a wild man's [D] brain.
And it's madness.
_ [C] _ _ Every [E] time the bullets _ _ start.
There [Em] is madness.
_ _ _ [Em] Burning in a poor man's [D] heart. _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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And it's madness.
_ _ _ Something that we _ [Gb] can't control.
[D] _
[E] There is madness.
_ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ In a mad man's soul.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Madness. _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ Madness. _
[D] _ [Em] _ _ Madness. _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [E] _ _ Madness. _