Skyline Pigeon (Alternate)
Empty Sky
SKYLINE PIGEON
Year: 1969
Album: EMPTY SKY
Writers: Elton John\ Bernie Taupin
(Intro)
(Eb Bb/D Cm Eb/Bb Ab Eb/Bb Bb Eb)*
Eb Bb/D
Turn me loose from your hands
Ab Bb Eb
Let me fly to distant lands
F/A Ab
Over green fields, trees and mountains
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
Flowers and forest fountains
Ab Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
Home along the lanes of the skyway
Eb Bb/D
For this dark and lonely room
Ab Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
Projects a sha___dow cast in gloom
F/A
And my eyes are mirrors
Ab
Of the world outside
Eb/Bb
Thinking of the way
Bb7 Eb
That the wind can turn the tide
Ab
And these shadows turn
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
From purple into grey
Ab
For just a Skyline Pigeon
Eb/Bb Bb7
Dreaming of the open
Eb
Waiting for the day
Ab
He can spread his wings
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb G7/D
And fly away again
Cm D7 Gm
Fly away skyline pigeon fly
Ab
Towards the dreams
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb G7/D
You've left so very far behind
Cm D7 Gm
Fly away skyline pigeon fly
Ab
Towards the dreams
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
You've left so very far behind
(repeat intro)
Eb
Just let me wake up in the morning
Bb/D
To the smell of new mown hay
Ab D7
To laugh and cry, to live and die
Eb
In the brightness of my day
F/A
I want to hear the pealing bells
Ab
Of distant churches sing
Eb/Bb
But most of all please free me
Bb7 Eb
From this aching metal ring
Ab Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
And open out this cage towards the sun
Ab
For just a Skyline Pigeon
Eb/Bb Bb7
Dreaming of the open
Eb
Waiting for the day
Ab
He can spread his wings
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb G7/D
And fly away again
Cm D7 Gm
Fly away skyline pigeon fly
Ab
Towards the dreams
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb G7/D
You've left so very far behind
Cm D7 Gm
Fly away skyline pigeon fly
Ab
Towards the dreams
Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb Bb/D Cm Eb/Bb Ab Eb/Bb Bb7 Eb
You've left so very, so very far behi_____nd.
*Add harpsichord embellishments here and throughout.
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