Better Off Dead
Captain Fantastic (and the Brown Dirt Cowboy) · Elton John
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Ab/CDb
AbBbm
FmGb
Ab/EbDb
DbThere was a face on a hoarding that sGbomeone had dDbrawn on
And just enough time for the night to pass by without Gbwarning Db/F
EbAway in the distance there's a blue flashing AbligGbht
BbmSomeone's in trouble Gbsomewhere toDbnight
As the Gb/Dbflickering Dbneon stands Abready to Gbfuse
The Ebmwind blows Dbaway all of Abyesterday's Bbmnews
Ab/CDb
AbBbm
FmGb
Ab/EbDb
Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches
They always could find us but they never could catch us
Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe
We watched the arrested get taken away
And that cigarette haze has ecology heat
As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street
F7`Cause the steams in the boiler, the coals in the Bbmfire Db/Ab
GbIf you ask how I am then I'll Ab7just say insDbpired
F7If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your Bbmside Db/Ab
EbmThen you're better off Gbdead if you Ab7haven't yet died
Inst Verse with OOH
Repeat Chorus
Repeat "Better Off Dead" over Intor Line
From the archive
Visitor comments from the original site (2009–2021).
- koby golan · 2011-02-28
very good
- sw · 2011-03-30
Nice... I just play all those flats as open chords a half step up it's a lot easier... but harder to sing!
- eric mitchell · 2013-09-30
Nice to see this in the correct key, I've been playing it in Db since i was a kid. Thanks!
- Kim Hansen · 2019-08-08
Just a small correction - if you don't mind... Intro: Ab/C - Db F/A - Bbm F - Gb Ab/c - Db