1973 ELTON JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Roads/Screw You
Here is GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD again, with another cover. I found this EJ single at a music auction almost for free.
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD is a ballad performed Elton John. Lyrics for the song were written by Bernie Taupin and the music composed by Elton John for his album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".
The song was released in 1973 as the album's second single.
It was one of Elton John's biggest hits, and surpassed the previous single, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", in sales and popularity.
The B-side of the single is "Screw You" but in puritan America renamed as "Young Man's Blues"... which was released in 1992 on the double album (CD) RARE MASTERS (EJ 1968-1975)
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SCREW YOU
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1973
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When I was a boy I had a lot of fun
I lived by the sea, I was a fisherman's son
My mother she was a fisherman's wife
She was scrubbing floors most of her life
They said screw you
I ain't got nothing to lose
I could paper a matchbox
With the money I use
At the school I attended I got into fights
I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter night
The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins
They got most of their thrills out of using a cane
They said screw you
Oh you bloody young fools
I could get more sense
Out of the back end of a mule
So you see there's man who get paid for being slaves
And men who get paid for being free
And there's men behind bars who pray for the light
And men in the suburbs who pray for the night
And they're all trying to climb to the top of the mine
And all of them say most of the way
Screw you
I worked in the mill from seven till nine
Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind
Trying to make wages that weren't even there
Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear
He said screw you
This is all you'll ever do
It's the only existence for someone like you
1973 ELTON JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Roads/Screw You
Here is GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD again, with another cover. I found this EJ single at a music auction almost for free.
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD is a ballad performed Elton John. Lyrics for the song were written by Bernie Taupin and the music composed by Elton John for his album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".
The song was released in 1973 as the album's second single.
It was one of Elton John's biggest hits, and surpassed the previous single, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", in sales and popularity.
The B-side of the single is "Screw You" but in puritan America renamed as "Young Man's Blues"... which was released in 1992 on the double album (CD) RARE MASTERS (EJ 1968-1975)
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SCREW YOU
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1973
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When I was a boy I had a lot of fun
I lived by the sea, I was a fisherman's son
My mother she was a fisherman's wife
She was scrubbing floors most of her life
They said screw you
I ain't got nothing to lose
I could paper a matchbox
With the money I use
At the school I attended I got into fights
I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter night
The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins
They got most of their thrills out of using a cane
They said screw you
Oh you bloody young fools
I could get more sense
Out of the back end of a mule
So you see there's man who get paid for being slaves
And men who get paid for being free
And there's men behind bars who pray for the light
And men in the suburbs who pray for the night
And they're all trying to climb to the top of the mine
And all of them say most of the way
Screw you
I worked in the mill from seven till nine
Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind
Trying to make wages that weren't even there
Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear
He said screw you
This is all you'll ever do
It's the only existence for someone like you