CANDLE IN THE WIND

LEVEL 4Bb · 110 BPM · Elton John

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TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN

Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.

HOW TO PLAY

1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.

LYRICS

(F)Good bye, Nor ma Jean, the though I nev er knew er you at all, you had the (C7)grace to (F)hold your self while (Bb)those a (C)round you crawled.

They out of the (C)wood work

and they whis pered (Bb)press in to your brain, they set you on a tread mill and they made i you change in your name.

And it (C)seems to me you lived your life like a (F)can dle in the wind.

Nev er (F)know ing who to cling to when (F)the rain set in.

And I (Bb)would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid.

Your can dle had burned out (C)long be fore your (Bb)leg ev er did.

(F)Lone li ness was tough, the tough est role you ev er played.

Hol ly cre at ed (C7)a to (F)su per star and (Bb)pain was (C)the you paid.

They ven when you (C)died, work

and they oh, the (Bb)press still hound ed you, they all the pa pers had to was that Mar i lyn was in the nude.

And it (C)seems to me you lived your life like a (F)can dle in the wind.

Nev er (F)know ing who to cling to when (F)the rain set in.

And I (Bb)would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid.

Your can dle had burned out (C)long be fore your (Bb)leg ev er did.

Good bye, Nor ma Jean,

though I nev er knew you at all, you had the (C7)grace to (F)hold your self while (Bb)those a (C)round you crawled.

(F)Good bye, Nor ma Jean, from the young man in the (Bb)twen ty sec ond row who sees you as some thing more than (F)sex u al, more than (Bb)just Mar (C)i lyn Mon roe.