Candle in the Wind

(E)Goodbye, Norma Jean,

though I never (A)knew you at all you lywood created a (E)hold yourself while those around you crawled.

(A)They crawled out of the (E)woodwork

and they whispered (A)into your brain.

you. They set you on the treadmill say and they made i you change your name.

in the nude.

And it (B)seems to me you lived your life (B7)like a (E)candle in the wind,

never knowing who to cling to when the (B)rain set in.

(B)And I (A)would have liked to have known you,

but I was just a kid.

Your candle burned out (B)long before

your (A)legend ever did.

(E)Loneliness was tough,

the toughest role (A)you ever played.

Hollywood created a (E)superstar and pain was the you paid.

(A)They Even when you (E)died, work

and they oh, the (A)press still hounded you.

All the pa on pers had to say was that made i you change your name.

in the nude.

And it (B)seems to me you lived your life (B7)like a (E)candle in the wind,

never knowing who to cling to when the (B)rain set in.

(B)And I (A)would have liked to have known you,

but I was just a kid.

Your candle burned out (B)long before

your (A)legend ever did.

(E)Goodbye, Norma Jean,

though I never (A)knew you at all,

you had the grace to (E)hold yourself

while those around you crawled.

(E)Goodbye, Norma Jean,

from the young man in the (A)twentysecond row who sees you as something more than (E)sexual,

more than just our Marilyn (A)Monroe.

(A)And it (B)seems to me you lived your life like a (E)candle in the wind,

never knowing who to cling to when the rain set in.

(B)And I (A)would have liked to have known you,

but I was just a kid.

Your candle burned out (B)long before

your (A)legend ever did.

(E7)I (A)would have liked to have known you,

whoa, but I was just a kid.