When I think of those East End lights Muggy nights The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs Prima donna Lord you really should have been there Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair And it's one more beer And I don't hear you anymore We've all gone crazy lately My friends out there rolling round the basement floor And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly And butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away bye bye I never realized the passing hours Of evening showers A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams I'm strangled by your haunted social scene Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen It's four o'clock in the morning Damn it listen to me good I'm sleeping with myself tonight Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly And butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away bye bye And I would have walked head on into the deep end the river Clinging to your stocks and bonds Paying your H.P. demands forever They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight Someone saved my life tonight So save your strength and run the field you play alone And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear You nearly had me roped and tied Altar-bound, hypnotized Sweet freedom whispered in my ear You're a butterfly And butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away bye bye
Definitely one of my favorite Elton songs! I am absolutely blown away you can do this by ear. I am so jealous of people who can do that! Your hand positioning is just so relaxed, it's like you're barely putting any effort in and it sounds incredible, I love it.
Hello all Personally to me, I just look for the best live versions available, these are ones that I found Tiny Dancer - th-cam.com/video/0S8S3tTpLkc/w-d-xo.html Sacrifice - Working on one Song For Guy - th-cam.com/video/1K6rwvk8_GY/w-d-xo.html or th-cam.com/video/lxcYldvgrNI/w-d-xo.html Blue Eyes - th-cam.com/video/DbuGa-rLOPA/w-d-xo.html This next version of Blue Eyes is the one as it would be recorded back in the studio version - th-cam.com/video/8ZPShtlDzgI/w-d-xo.html
I'm wondering the same (?) I guess this chord is the natural sheet you can find as official by EJ. But since the end of 90s EJ had change the tone in order to adjust his own voice (My self-taught notes listening Epehesus concert doesn't match
Nice performance .... but you're playing the WRONG CHORD when Elton sings "Butterfly." You're playing Eb/F .... but the true chord is Fm6. Note: when Elton played it live in the 80s, he would substitute Bb/F instead of the Fm6. :)
When I think of those East End lights
Muggy nights
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
Prima donna Lord you really should have been there
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
And it's one more beer
And I don't hear you anymore
We've all gone crazy lately
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away bye bye
I never realized the passing hours
Of evening showers
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it listen to me good
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away bye bye
And I would have walked head on into the deep end the river
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your H.P. demands forever
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Someone saved my life tonight
So save your strength and run the field you play alone
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away bye bye
Definitely one of my favorite Elton songs! I am absolutely blown away you can do this by ear. I am so jealous of people who can do that! Your hand positioning is just so relaxed, it's like you're barely putting any effort in and it sounds incredible, I love it.
Thank you very much! Glad you like it :)
Beautifully done 👍🏼
I have listened to all of your covers and you are on top of my list.
Can you please do Don't let the sun go down on me.
Saturday nights alright tomorrow 🤩
Incredible
Great final
This will be awesome!
Beautifully Played. Absolutely Love it
Wow! Beautiful rendition of an amazing Elton masterpiece :)
omg ive been waiting for this
I can not work out what there is to not like this video! AMAZING!
ive been waiting for this song
A few suggestions for Elton songs in this overhead camera format:
Tiny Dancer
Sacrifice
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
...
actually, all of them!!!
SONG FOR GUY
Also "Blue Eyes"
Tiny Dancer: th-cam.com/video/h1T5w6jhEM8/w-d-xo.html
Hello all
Personally to me, I just look for the best live versions available, these are ones that I found
Tiny Dancer - th-cam.com/video/0S8S3tTpLkc/w-d-xo.html
Sacrifice - Working on one
Song For Guy - th-cam.com/video/1K6rwvk8_GY/w-d-xo.html or th-cam.com/video/lxcYldvgrNI/w-d-xo.html
Blue Eyes - th-cam.com/video/DbuGa-rLOPA/w-d-xo.html
This next version of Blue Eyes is the one as it would be recorded back in the studio version - th-cam.com/video/8ZPShtlDzgI/w-d-xo.html
Really beautiful job with the voicings by ear! Before I checked your bio I was quite sure this was the original notated version.
Ooh, doing in the original key? I noticed Elton does it half a step lower live than he originally recorded.
I'm wondering the same (?) I guess this chord is the natural sheet you can find as official by EJ. But since the end of 90s EJ had change the tone in order to adjust his own voice (My self-taught notes listening Epehesus concert doesn't match
Way more than half a step lol. It was one and a half steps I believe
clap clap clap !!!!!!!!!! :)
Great
Amazing,You can touch the king must die?
Jorge Vásquez I love that one! I might be doing that one on my channel. Feel free to check it out!
Kind Request: Crazy Water and Part Time Love ( can be inspired from live Moscow 1979 found on youtube)
If you have Patreon or similar, I'd gladly send you a few bucks :)
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How do you pedal the beginning of this song?
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anyone know if this song has changed it's key tone???
Can you do home again?
Can you do "Blue Eyes" with this new camera?
Great job. Certainly equal to Elton.
I wanted to see it in key of F
Peccato solo che Non Sai Cantare, se no eri apposto 😁
Nice performance .... but you're playing the WRONG CHORD when Elton sings "Butterfly." You're playing Eb/F .... but the true chord is Fm6. Note: when Elton played it live in the 80s, he would substitute Bb/F instead of the Fm6. :)