Elton John - Burn Down The Mission

burn down the mission

year : 1971
album : tumbleweed connection
writers : elton john bernie taupin

( G Em7 bbc G Em7 bbc ) *

G Em bbc
you tell me there’s an angel in your tree

D# gd ac# Dsus4
did he say he’d come to call on me

G Em7sus4 bbc
for things are getting desperate in our home

C#dim7 gd D C F# Am7
living in the parish of the restless folks i know

G F C G G G A B D E
everybody now bring your family down to the riverside

F C G G A B D
look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

F# C G G A C D
behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

G c6g bbc
it’s time we put the flame torch to their keep

bbc

C# G#
burn down the mission

F#
if we’re gonna stay alive

C# G#
watch the black smoke fly to heaven

F#
see the red flame light the sky

ebbb A#
burn down the mission

G#
burn it down to stay alive

ebbb A#
it’s our only chance of living

G# C# bbc
take all you need to live inside

[ F ebbb bbf F
( repeat 3x )

F D# bbd fc A# fa ebg

F D# bbd fc A# fa ebg

G F ce gd C F# C

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bbc dbab A#m A#m6 fc fa bbc A#
oh______________________!

( G Em7 bbc G Em7 bbc ) *

G Em bbc
deep in the woods the squirrels are out today

D# gd ac# Dsus4
my wife cried when they came to take me away

G Em7sus4 bbc
but what more could i do just to keep her warm

C#dim7 gd D C F# Am7 G
than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls

( chorus )

F D# bbd fc A# fa ebg

F D# bbd fc A# fa ebg

G F ce gd C F# C

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( gc fc C G ) * *
( repeat , fade )

* first time through :
lower case letters are played as octaves , upper case letters as chords :

G G A D D E A# A# A# A#
G Em C C C C C