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Good bye, Nor ma Jean.
Though I nev er knew you at all, you had wood the grace ed to hold your self
while those a round you crawled.
They crawled out of the wood work
and they whis pered in to your brain.
you.
They set you on a tread mill say
and they made i you change was your name.
nude.
It seems to me you lived your life like a can dle in the wind,
nev er know ing
who to cling to
when the rain set in.
I would have liked to have known you but I was just a kid.
Your can dle burned out long be fore
your leg end ev er did.
Lone li ness was tough,
the tough est role you ev er played.
Hol ly wood cre at ed a su per star
and pain was the you paid.
And e ven when you died, work
and they oh, the press still hound ed you.
All the pa on pers had to say
was that Mar i lyn change was found in nude.
It seems to me you lived your life like a can dle in the wind,
nev er know ing
who to cling to
when the rain set in.
I would have liked to have known you but I was just a kid.
Your can dle burned out long be fore
your leg end ev er did.
I would have liked to have known you, oh, but I was just a kid.
Your can dle burned out long be fore
your leg end ev er did.
This page shows “Candle In The Wind” by Elton John in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Bb at 88 BPM, a slightly more challenging arrangement — practice each phrase slowly first.