Elton John - The Scaffold: chords

F#                     G#
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live.
     G#m7                                              F#
Come give the beggar chance at hand his life is on his lip.
                                   G#
Three score a thousand times where once in Amazon.
      G#m7                                       F#
Where El Dorado holds the key no keeper holds my hand.

Chorus:
  A#m7              D#m                          F#/C#
Unchain the gate of solitude, the ruler says you run.
                  G#/C           D7               F#/C#           C#
Run hard unto the scaffold high  -  your chance to  -  jump the gun.
F#                                     C#7                F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow.
                                             C#7                 F#
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window.
F#                                     C#7                F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow.
                                             C#7                 F#
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window.

The Minotaur with bloody hands is - enraged by the sun.
Caged he by the corpses brought forth by the dawn.
In Orient is as I told the buckshee hangman swears.
For open crypts to silence nylon knots to sway by prayer.

Chorus

In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live.
Come give the beggar chance at hand - his life is on his lip.