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Original handwritten lyrics for Elton John's "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road" TAUPIN, BERNIE. Autograph Manuscript Initialed ("BJT"), 2 pp, legal folio, [Chateau D'Hérouville, France], January 10, 1973, six stanzas written in red felt-tip pen on legal typing paper, corners bumped, light thumbing. Together with a with a "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" booklet. Provenance: Collection of Maxine Taupin. ORIGINAL WORKING DRAFT OF "GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD" The title track of John's 1973 album, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is a glam rock ballad about the trappings of fame. When are you gonna come down when are you going to land I should have stayed on the farm I should have listened to my old man You now you can't hold me forever I didn't sign up to with you Im not a present for your friends to open This boys to young to be singing the blues So Goodbye yellow brick road Im going back to my plough You can't plant a tree in a penthouse Where the dogs of society howl You cant plant me in your penthouse Im going back to my plough. Back to the howlin old owl in the wood hunting the horny back toad I've finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road What do you think you'll do then I bet that'll shoot down your plane It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to put you back on your two feet again Well I've got things to do Maybe you'll get a replacement there's plenty like me to be found mongrels who ain't got a penny lookin for love in the backstreets of town Sniffing for tit bits like you in the ground. Fußnoten The album [Goodbye Yellow Brick Road] was the biggest hit of their career, staying at #1 on the charts for two months and turning 'Bennie and the Jets,' 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' and "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting' into worldwide hits. There would almost certainly have been more had they released 'Candle in the Wind' and 'Harmony' as singles. —Rolling Stone March 14, 2014