The sheet music provides the musical notation, lyrics, and instructions for Elton John's 1973 song "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" in 3 pages. It gives the tempo, instrumentation, chord progressions, lyrics, and other performance notes for the piano, string, and vocal parts of the song. The lyrics describe saying goodbye and moving on from a past relationship to find one's future beyond the yellow brick road.

1. Goodbye
YellowBrickRoad
Wordsand Music Elton
by
Johnand Bernie
Taupin
.3 -
IntrO
Moderately
slow,in Z ) = eO/J ptayed J .Dl
u.
F
CIE
Dm
Dn/C
Bb
Vocal
Pan.I
Strings
Verse
Gm7
When are
Bb
you gon-na come
F/A
C
down?
When are
Bb
you go-ing to land?-
s
ryp
Eb
C
should have stayed-
on the farm. -
I should have
lis-tened to my -
ld
man.-
e
F
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2. Bb
knowyou can't hold_
me for- ev
er.
did- n't
Svabassa
-J
sign up -
8va bassa
Eb
I'M
---------------l
C
ent
for
your
friends
This
to
Bridge
ebnl
young_
with you. _
smg - lng
blues.
Sround.
-.2nd time sim.
2nd time sim.

3. l
o
n
8va bassa --J
J - h
So,
good-bye
yel-low brick
road-
where the
dogs of
so - ci - e - ty
Gm7
You
can't plant me in your pent -
house.
I'm
go-ing
back_
to

4. ClE
Dm
back-
A
to
the howl-ing old owl _
hunt-ing the horn - y backed
in the woods,-
Svabassa -J
Db
Eb
F
_,/
Oh,I've fin
CIE
'ly
de-cid
-
Dm
ed my
fu-ture lies
Dm/C
be-
8va bassa
Bb
B b l cC
BbmT
To Codafi
Eb
yond the vel-low brick
on'
Svabassa --J
J
(Low stríngs continue sim. to L.H. piano)
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5. What do you think you'll do - then?
It-'lltakeyou acou -ple of Vod -kaandton
I
-ics
bet they'd shoot down - the
to setyouonyourfeeta-gai

6. May-be you'll get-
a re-place -
ment.
There's plen-ty like me -
to be found,-
8va bassa - )
Eb
mon-grels
D.S. al Coda
snif-fin'for tid - bits like
on
the
8va bassa
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