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The Emperor's New Clothes Music by Elton John Lyrics by Bernie Taupin Available on the album Songs From The West Coast A/C C/E Dm/F C/G G A/C C/E Bb/F Bb/F F
We beCt on our lives and we bet on the hC/Eorses In that upFstairs apartment On OrlandCo and 4th And the renGt was due and the rent man was Amknocking C/G Like a ChiFnese proverb We were alwaC/Gys sC/GearcC/GhingG F
CNightlife's a no-win but nobody C/Enoticed How we killeFd off the bottles Looking goodC on the surface The doGg days barked and the house cat gAm7ot old We were BonnieC and Clyde In the emFmaj7peror's new GclotheCs F/C C
And the tearFs never came They jusF/At stG/Bayed in our eyes We refusF/Ced to admit that we wore this disCguise C/B Every incFh of us growing Like PiBb6nocchio's nose A+ A Dm C/E F G C F/C C As we walked around in the emperor's new clothes
We flew by our wits and by the seat of our pants In the state of illusion In the nation of chance And the repo was hauling the wreck we'd been driving As the dashboard Madonna Smiled back at us kindly We cheated the system never batting an eyelid Seeing only the good Through the holes in our shoes And our halos were rusty but we wore them proudly We were two little gods In the emperor's new clothes
And the tearFs never came They jusF/At stG/Bayed in our eyes We refusF/Ced to admit that we wore this disCguise C/B Every incFh of us growing Like PiBb6nocchio's nose A+ A Dm C/E F G Bb F/A Fm7/Ab C/G As we walked around in the emperor's new clothes Dm C/E F G Bb F/A Fm7/Ab C/G emperor's new clothes DmempC/EerorF'sG new cClothes F/C C
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