Goodbye Yellow Brick Road


F 
 
C/E 
 
Dm 
 
F/C 
 
Bb 
 
F/C 
 
C/E 
 
F 
 
Gm7 
When are you  
Bb 
gonna come  
C 
down
F 
When are you  
F/A 
going to  
Bb 
land
 
I s
Eb 
hould have stayed on the  
C 
farm
 
I should have  
F 
listened to my old man
 
You  
Gm7 
know you can’t
Bb 
hold me fo
C 
rever
 
I  
F 
didn’t 
 
sig
F/A 
n up with  
Bb 
you
 
I’m  
Eb 
not a present for your  
C 
friends to open
 
This  
F 
boy’s too young to be singing the  
Bbm7 
blues 
 
 
Eb 
 
Ab 
Ah  
Db 
 
Bbm7 
 
C 
 
F 
So goodbye yellow brick  
A7 
road
 
Where the  
Bb 
dogs of society  
F 
howl 
 
 
C/E 
 
You  
D7 
can’t plant me in your  
Gm7 
penthouse
 
I’m  
C 
going back to my  
F 
plo
C/E 
ugh
 
Dm 
Back to the howling old  
A 
owl in the woods
Bb 
Hunting the horny back  
Db 
toad
 
Oh  
Eb 
I’ve 
 
 
F 
finally 
 
de
C/E 
cided my  
Dm 
future 
 
 
F/C 
lies
 
Be
Bb 
yond 
 
the
Bb/C 
yello
C 
w brick  
Bbm7 
road  
Eb 
 
Ab 
Ah 
 
 
Db 
 
Bbm7 
 
C 
 
F 

What do you think you’ll do then

I bet that’ll shoot down your plane
It’ll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you’ll get a replacement

There’s plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain’t got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

12 Comments:

  1. sorry, love the song but cant sing and play it on the guitar unless you make it easier

  2. It’s really a piano song. I think some stuff just doesn’t translate to guitar. It’s murder on a six string but on keys it’s sensible.

  3. This isn’t too tough to play if you can do some barre chords. Try playing just the bass note of the C/E, F/C, and F/A chords…E, C, and, A respectively.

  4. I love this, sounds exactly like the song and it is not too hard.

  5. I think this is close but not quite perfect. On the opening walk down, I tried it out with both piano and guitar against the record came up with F-Am-Dm-C-Bb-Bb/C-F. Also, I prefer Gm and Bbm to Gm7 and Bbm7 but I like the D7 and A7. I think even the A with the ‘howling old owl’ could be A7. Pretty amazing and somewhat bizarre chord changes in this song!

  6. I think this is close but not quite perfect. On the opening walk down, I tried it out with both piano and guitar against the record and came up with F-Am-Dm-C-Bb-Bb/C-F. Also, I prefer Gm and Bbm to Gm7 and Bbm7 but I like the D7 and A7. I think even the A with the ‘howling old owl’ could be A7. Pretty amazing and somewhat bizarre chord changes in this song!

  7. Thank you so much for this I love Elton John and all these songs are coming from here thank you this is also identical to the real song

  8. The best way to make it work on guitar is using a capo on 3rd and play
    Em7 G A
    D D/F# G
    C A D
    repeat
    Gm7 C F Bb Gm7 A
    then chorus
    D F#7 G D (A/C#) B7 Em7 A D (A/C#)
    Bm F# G Bb
    (C) D A/C# Bm D/A G G/A A
    Gm7 C F Bb Gm7 A

  9. Well done. Great chords. Thank you

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