Elton John - The Emperors New Clothes guitar tab

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

C C/E

We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses

F

In that upstairs apartment

C

On Orlando and 4th

G Am C/G

And the rent was due and the rent man was knocking

F

Like a Chinese proverb

C/G C/G C/G G F

We were always searching

C C/E

Nightlife's a no-win but nobody noticed

F

How we killed off the bottles

C

Looking good on the surface

G Am7

The dog days barked and the house cat got old

C

We were Bonnie and Clyde

Fmaj7 G C F/C C

In the emperor's new clothes

F

And the tears never came

F/A G/B

They just stayed in our eyes

F/C C C/B

We refused to admit that we wore this disguise

F

Every inch of us growing

Bb6

Like Pinocchio'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

F

And the tears never came

F/A G/B

They just stayed in our eyes

F/C C C/B

We refused to admit that we wore this disguise

F

Every inch of us growing

Bb6

Like Pinocchio'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

Dm C/E F G C F/C C

emperor's new clothes

A/C C/E Dm/F C/G G

A/C C/E Bb/F Bb/F F C/E F/D C

F/C C

F/C C

Copyright (C) Mark van Gerven Netherlands