"CURTAINS"

This song is from, I believe, the Elton John album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Jeff performed it at a solo gig at the Mercury Lounge in New York one New Year's Eve. (My thanks to Andrea for the tape of the song.)

"Curtains" Chord Chart"

 A7
I used to know this old scarecrow
           D
He was my song
 A7
My joy and sorrow

Cast alone between the furrows
       D                       A7
Of a field no longer sown by anyone


I held a dandelion
                        D
That said the time had come
                   E
To leave upon the wind
        A7
Not to return
                        D
When summer burned the earth again

      A7          D
Oh oh oh,  oh oh oh....

 A7                           D
Cultivate the freshest flower
             A7
This garden ever grew

Beneath these branches
        D                   A7
I once wrote such childish words for you


But that's okay
                                          D
There's treasure children always seek to find
              E
And just like us
               A7
You must have had
               D
A once upon a time

      A7          D
Oh oh oh,  oh oh oh....

You can mess around with some of the fingerings for the principal chords, e.g. (from bottom string to top string):

For the A7, you can vary between
X/0/2/0/2/0, or
X/0/2/2/2/3, or
X/0/7/9/8/9.

For the E, you can vary between
0/2/2/1/0/0, or
X/X/2/4/5/4, or
X/7/9/9/9/7.