Your Song - Elton John (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Your Song (Elton John, 1970). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2025-03-31. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Your Song," written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, was Elton's first top 40 single in the USA and rose to the no. 8 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970 (Whitburn, 2013). The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (C. Irwin, ultimateclassicrock, Apr. 26, 2019). According to Taupin, "The original lyric was written very rapidly on the kitchen table of Elton's mother's apartment in Northwood Hills in the suburbs of London, if I recall, on a particularly grubby piece of exercise paper" Elton wrote the music in about 20 minutes, as he often did with Taupin's lyrics in their early days (songfacts, 2025). Taupin also stated that "It's like the perennial ballad 'Your Song,' which has got to be one of the most naïve and childish lyrics in the entire repertoire of music, but I think the reason it still stands up is because it was real at the time. That was exactly what I was feeling. I was 17 years old and it was coming from someone whose outlook on love or experience with love was totally new and naïve" (Music Connection, 1989).

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Lyrics:

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
But I'm, I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I, I don't have much money but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor but, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody, this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

So you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world