ELDERBERRY WINE

Year:  1973
Album:  DON'T SHOOT ME I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

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There's a fly in the window

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A dog in the yard

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And a year since I saw you

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There's a trunk in the corner

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I keep all my letters

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My bills and demands I keep too


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Well I can't help thinking

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About the times

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You were a wife of mine

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You aimed to please me

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Cooked black-eyed peas-me

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Made elderberry wine


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Drunk all the time

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Feeling fine on elderberry wine

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Those were the days

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We'd lay in the haze

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Forget depressive times

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How can I ever get it together

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Without a wife in line

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To pick the crop and get me hot

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On elderberry wine


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Round a tree in the summer

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A fire in the fall

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Flat out when they couldn't stand

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The bottle went round

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Like a woman down south

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Passed on from hand to hand


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Well I can't help thinking

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About the times

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You were a wife of mine

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You aimed to please me

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Cooked black-eyed peas-me

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Made elderberry wine

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              Elderberry wine.


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Elderberry wine
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