LET ME BE YOUR CAR

Year:  1973
Album:  (None.  Appeared on Rod Stewart's SMILER album, 1974.  Elton's demo appears on 1992's RARE MASTERS collection.)
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

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I may not seem your ideal when you look into my eyes

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I don't smoke, I don't tell jokes, I'm not the custom made size

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But baby let me take you out on the highway for a while

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I'll show you where the man in me is when he doesn't hide

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Well he's cruising in the fast lane, stuck behind the wheel

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Jekyll and Hyde going on inside when I'm your automobile


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Let me be your car for a while child

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Shift me into gear and I'll be there

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Fill me up with five star gasoline girl, yeah

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I'll be your car, I'll take you anywhere


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Let me be your car, come on and drive me

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I'm a speedy little boy down deep inside

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I got bucket seats and two speed window cleaners, yeah

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Just let me be your car, oh come on and ride


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I can't dance, I don't dig it, I can't see it at all

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You say I'm just a specimen, and baby I can crawl

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Well my physique just don't look the way the physiques really should

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But then again I've got an engine underneath my hood


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When I'm cutting up the road, yeah, with a sports car on my tail

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Frankenstein's inside my mind, and the wind's inside my sails

(CHORUS)

(INSTRUMENTAL VERSE)

                          Dm                 F\C      Bb
Well he's cruising in the fast lane, stuck behind the wheel

Dm              F\C   Bb             Bb             C7  Fm7
Jekyll and Hyde going on inside when I'm your automobile


F              Bb        C          F\C C
Let me be your car for a while child

Dm            Bb                    F
Shift me into gear and I'll be there

Eb      Bb\D    C         F            F\E Dm
Fill me up with five star gasoline girl, yeah

     Eb      Bb\D      C           F    Fm7
I'll be your car, I'll take you anywhere


F              Bb               C       F\C C
Let me be your car, come on and drive me

      Dm        F\C Bb              F   Bb\F Eb\F
I'm a speedy little boy down deep inside

      Eb     Bb\D      C                F       F\E Dm
I got bucket seats and two speed window cleaners, yeah

            Eb      Bb\D C              F   
Just let me be your car, oh come on and ride

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