Candle In The Wind

(F)Goodbye, Norma Jean, the though I never (Bb)knew er you at all,

you had the (C7)grace to (F)hold yourself while (Bb)those (C)around you crawled.

They out of the (F)woodwork

and they whispered (Bb)press into your brain,

they set you on a treadmill and they made i you change in your name.

And it (C)seems to me you lived your life like a (F)candle in the wind.

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

And I (Bb)would have liked to have known you,

but I was just a kid.

Your candle had burned out (C)long before your (Bb)leg ever did.

(F)Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you (Bb)ev er played.

Holly created (C7)a to (F)superstar and (Bb)pain was (C)the you paid.

They ven when you died, work

(F)and they oh, the (Bb)press still hounded you,

they all the papers had to was that Mar ilyn was in the nude.

And it (C)seems to me you lived your life like a (F)candle in the wind.

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

And I (Bb)would have liked to have known you,

but I was just a kid.

Your candle had burned out (C)long before your (Bb)leg ever did.

(F)Goodbye, Norma Jean, though I never (Bb)knew you at all,

you had the (C7)grace to (F)hold yourself while (Bb)those (C)around you crawled.

(F)Goodbye, Norma Jean, from the young man in the (Bb)twenty second row who sees you as something more than (F)sexual,

more than (Bb)just (C)Marilyn Monroe.

(F)And it The (Dm)candle has burned out (C)long before your (Bb)leg ever did.