{"id":22787,"date":"2025-05-25T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=22787"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:51:37","slug":"candle-in-the-wind-elton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/candle-in-the-wind-elton\/","title":{"rendered":"Candle in the Wind &#8211; Elton"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre> {t:Candle In The Wind}\r\n{artist:Elton John}\r\n{key: D }      \r\nCapo 2\r\n{c: thanks to Pencom http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics\/ } \r\n[A] [G] [D] [A] \r\n[D] Goodbye Norma Jean \r\nThough I never [G] knew you at all \r\nYou had the grace to [D] hold yourself \r\nWhile those around you [G] crawled \r\nThey crawled out of the [D] woodwork \r\nAnd they [G] whispered into your brain \r\nThey set you on the [D] treadmill \r\nAnd they made you change your [G] name \r\n{c: } \r\nAnd it [A] seems to me you [A7] lived your life \r\nLike a [D] candle in the [G] wind \r\nNever [D] knowing who to cling to \r\nWhen the [A] rain set in \r\nAnd I [G] would have liked to have known you \r\nBut I was [Bm] just a kid \r\nYour candle burned out [A] long before \r\nYour [G] legend ever [D] did \r\n{c: } \r\n[D] Loneliness was tough \r\nThe toughest [G] role you ever played \r\nHollywood created a [D] superstar \r\nAnd pain was the price you [G] paid \r\nEven when you [D] died \r\nOh the [G] press still hounded you \r\n[G] All the papers had to say \r\nWas that [D] Marilyn was found in the [G] nude \r\n{c: } \r\nAnd it [A] seems to me you [A7] lived your life \r\nLike a [D] candle in the [G] wind \r\nNever [D] knowing who to cling to \r\nWhen the [A] rain set in \r\nAnd I [G] would have liked to have known you \r\nBut I was [Bm] just a kid \r\nYour candle burned out [A] long before \r\nYour [G] legend ever [D] did \r\n{c: } \r\n[D] Goodbye Norma Jean\r\nThough I never [G] knew you at all\r\nYou had the [D] grace to hold yourself\r\nWhile those around you [G] crawled\r\n[D] Goodbye Norma Jean\r\nFrom the young man [G] in the 22nd row\r\nWho sees you as something more than [D] sexual\r\nMore than just our Marilyn Mon-[G]roe\r\n{c: } \r\nAnd it [A] seems to me you [A7] lived your life \r\nLike a [D] candle in the [G] wind \r\nNever [D] knowing who to cling to \r\nWhen the [A] rain set in \r\nAnd I [G] would have liked to have known you \r\nBut I was [Bm] just a kid \r\nYour candle burned out [A] long before \r\nYour [G] legend ever [D] did \r\n{c: } \r\nYour candle burned out [A] long before \r\nYour [G] legend ever [D] did \t\t\t\t<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{t:Candle In The Wind} {artist:Elton John} {key: D } Capo 2 {c: thanks to Pencom http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics\/ } [A] [G] [D] [A] [D] Goodbye Norma Jean Though I never [G] knew you at all You had the grace to [D] hold yourself While those around you [G] crawled They crawled out &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/candle-in-the-wind-elton\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candle in the Wind &#8211; Elton<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}