Too Many Tears

Elton John

‘Too Many Tears’

Intro:   E   D/E   A/E   E   G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E
            E   D/E   A/E   E   G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E

Verse 1:             E                       D/E
             Did you see the first man on the moon?
                            A/E                           E
             Have you seen the first light of day?
                              F#m                     E/Ab
             When there wasn’t someone stuck inside,
             G                   
             Something like the moon,
             D/Gb                                   E    D/E   E
             Something like a star that’s lost its way.

Verse 2:             E                 D/E
             Did you go to Dallas on that day?  
                            A/E                                       E
             Have you been to where they broke a dream?
                                F#m           E/Ab
             Where there really isn’t room for doubt,
             G
             Somehow, we got lost, 
                          D/Gb                                  E        D/E   E
             And the truth is buried somewhere in between.

Chorus:         A              D                         G                            A
             And, everyone, everywhere, take time, and dry your eyes
                        C#m                  F#m                                   E    D/E   E
             ‘Cause too many tears, too many tears have been cried.
                    A                   D                     G                                     A
             Just look into that beautiful blue, that beautiful blue, blue sky.
                    C#m                   F#m                   E      D                   A
             And know, too many tears, too many tears have been cried.

(Repeat ½ of Intro)

Verse 3:      E                               D/E
             The mystery of why they had to leave,
                           A/E                                E
             I’m only one a thousand say and why.
                       F#m                              Eb/Ab
             Why a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee
                        G
             Seems strapped in time.
                       D/Gb                           E        D/E   E
             Just an angry finger pointing at the sky.

Verse 4:                  E                     D/E
             Would you wait to stand inside his shoes, 
                               A/E                          E
             And is your best all you had to give?
                   F#m                           Eb/Ab
             The barefoot man lived a simple life.
               G                                D/Gb
             I guess, he knew some things die
                           E                     D/E   E
             So other things might live.

(Repeat Chorus)

Instrument Break:   E   D/E   A/E   E   F#m   Eb/Ab   G   D/Gb
                                E   D/E   E   E   D/E   A/E   E   G   D/Gb   E   
                                D/E   E

(Repeat Chorus)

Outro:    E   D/E   A/E   E   G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E
              G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E
              G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E
              G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E
              G   D/Gb   E   D/E   E

Chorded by:  Brad Phillips