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~ Elton John-Levon-Live 1971
Views: 171495 |  |  |  |  | "LEVON" (music by Elton John & lyrics by Bernie Taupin)
Available on the album "Madman Across The Water"
Performed at BBC Studios
Year: 1971
Band:
Elton John - piano, vocals
Dee Murray - background vocals
Nigel Olsson - background vocals, percus ...More sion
Lyrics-
Levon wears his war wound like a crown
He calls his child Jesus
`Cause he likes the name
And he sends him to the finest school in town
Levon, Levon likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spends his days counting
In a garage by the motorway
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war's begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Levon
In tradition with the family plan
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Levon
Levon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly
And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
Leaving Levon far behind
Take a balloon and go sailing
While Levon, Levon slowly dies
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day
When the New York Times said God is dead
And the war's begun
Alvin Tostig has a son today
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Levon
In tradition with the family plan
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Levon |
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~ Elton John-Goodbye-live 1971
Views: 34296 |  |  |  |  | "Goodbye" (music by Elton John & lyrics by Bernie Taupin)
Available on the album "Madman Across The Water"
Performed at BBC Studios
Year: 1971
Band:
Elton John - piano, vocals
Dee Murray - background vocals
Nigel Olsson - background vocals, perc ...More ussion
Lyrics-
And now that it's all over
The birds can nest again
I'll only snow when the sun comes out
I'll shine only when it starts to rain
And if you want a drink
Just squeeze my hand
And wine will flow into the land
And feed my lambs
For I am a mirror
I can reflect the moon
I will write songs for you
I'll be your silver spoon
I'm sorry I took your time
I am the poem that doesn't rhyme
Just turn back a page
I'll waste away, I'll waste away
I'll waste away, I'll waste away
I'll waste away, I'll waste away |
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~ Elton John-Tiny Dancer live 1971(solo)
Views: 88330 |  |  |  |  | Tiny Dancer,
uploaded for CaptainFantastic2004 :)
(music by Elton John & lyrics by Bernie Taupin)
Available on the album "Madman Across The Water"
Performed at BBC Studios
Year: 1971
Band: (This performance is Elton SOLO!, no band in this particu ...More lar clip)
Elton John - piano, vocals
Dee Murray - background vocals
Nigel Olsson - background vocals, percussion
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand
Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad
Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows, the tune she hums
But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can't hear me
When I say softly, slowly
Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
you had a busy day today
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand |
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~ Elton John - Indian Sunset live 1971(solo)
Views: 105538 |  |  |  |  | "Indian Sunset" (music by Elton John & lyrics by Bernie Taupin)
Available on the album "Madman Across The Water"
Performed at BBC Studios
Year: 1971
Band: (This performance is Elton SOLO!, no band in this particular clip)
Elton John - piano, vocals ...More
Dee Murray - background vocals
Nigel Olsson - background vocals, percussion
Lyrics(definitely one of Bernie Taupin's BEST and most beautiful works, IMO)-
As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging,
Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted tepee, Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my woman
For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving
This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead
Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns
Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was young
I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums
I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wild
To run the gantlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine
And now you ask that I should watch
The red man's race be slowly crushed
What kind of words are these to hear
From Yellow Dog whom white man fears
I take only what is mine Lord, my pony, my squaw, and my child
I can't stay to see you die along with my tribe's pride
I go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons
Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run
Trampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sand
Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands
I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead
He'd been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of lead
Now there seems no reason why I should carry on
In this land that once was my land I can't find a home
It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming
And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running
For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones
Where the buffalos graze in clover fields without the sound of guns
And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold
And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet hole |
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~ Elton -Tiny Dancer
Views: 8192 |  |  |  |  | Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Madman Across The Water - 1971
Lyrics~
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancin ...More g in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand
Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad
Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows, the tune she hums
But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can't hear me
When I say softly, slowly
Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
you had a busy day today
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand
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~ elton john your song In concert Live to Studio Audience 1970
Views: 10002 |  |  |  |  | Your Song Elton John 1970 NB volume very quiet
.. border song sixty years on
take me to the pilot the greatest discovery
I need you to turn to burn down the mission
dee murray nigel olsson bernie taupin
world-wide issues, live and greatest hits a ...More nd studio
* 1969 Empty Sky
* 1970 Elton John
* 1970 Tumbleweed Connection
* 1971 11-17-70
* 1971 Friends Soundtrack
* 1971 Madman Across The Water
* 1972 Honky Chateau
* 1973 Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
* 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
* 1974 Caribou
* 1974 Greatest Hits
* 1975 Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
* 1975 Rock Of The Westies
* 1976 Here And There
* 1976 Blue Moves
* 1977 Greatest Hits Volume 2
* 1978 A Single Man
* 1979 Victim Of Love
* 1980 21 At 33
* 1981 The Fox
* 1982 Jump Up
* 1983 Too Low For Zero
* 1984 Breaking Hearts
* 1985 Ice On Fire
* 1986 Leather Jackets
* 1987 Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
* 1988 Reg Strikes Back
* 1989 Sleeping With The Past
* 1990 To Be Continued
* 1992 The One
* 1992 Rare Masters
* 1993 Duets
* 1994 Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop
* 1994 The Lion King Soundtrack
* 1995 Made In England
* 1996 Love Songs
* 1997 The Big Picture
* 1999 Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
* 1999 The Muse Soundtrack
* 2000 The Road To El Dorado Soundtrack
* 2000 One Night Only
* 2001 Songs From The West Coast
* 2002 Greatest Hits 1970-2002
* 2004 Peachtree Road
* 2006 The Captain And The Kid |
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