Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

A few more days and we'll be home in glory
Already they'll be getting out the flags
With memphis high _______ dormitory
For me, I only see a lot of snags

The prospect above all I find distressful
Is having to give up the soldier's life
If anything I'm rather too successful
They made me hand my sword in for a wife

For just because I've triumphed as a slaver
Brought booty back to egypt by the ton
Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor
And scheduled to do things I've never done

And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secrets and my confidence are safe enough with you

My days out on the field are all but ended
They'll put me out to grass which means the throne
Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended
I feel as though my heart is set in stone

But maybe I am being far too gloomy
Yes, maybe I'll make waves in pastures new
Find goverment and politics come to me
As naturally as I now talk to you

For just because I've triumphed as a slaver
Brought booty back to egypt by the ton
Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor
And scheduled to do things I've never done

And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you

Why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
Anonymous and undemanding
Enchantment passing through
My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you

• 20th Century Blues
• 71-75 New Oxford Street
• A Dandelion Dies in The Wind
• A Simple Man
• Abide With Me
• Amneris' Letter
• And The Clock Goes Round
• Angel Tree
• Annabella Umberella
• Another Pyramid
• Baby I Miss You
• Basque
• Big Man in a Little Suit
• Billy & The Kids
• Billy's Bag
• Breakdown Blues
• But Not for Me
• Can't Get Over Getting Over Losing You
• Candle in The Wind 1997
• Chapel of Love
• Choc Ice Goes Mental
• Conquer The Sun
• Dancing in The End Zone
• Dick Barton Theme
• Don't Stop
• Dreamboat
• Ducktail Jiver
• Earn While You Learn
• Easy as Life
• Elaborate Lives
• Enchantment Passing Through
• Fat Boys & Ugly Girls
• Flames of Paradise
• Flintstone Boy
• Fools in Fashion
• From Denver to L. a.
• Get Out
• God Knows
• Hey Papa Legba
• Highlander
• Hognuts Blues
• Honey Man
• Hour Glass
• How I Know You
• I Can't Go on Living Without You
• I Cry at Night
• I Get a Little Bit Lonely
• I Know Why I'm in Love
• I Love You & That's All That Matters
• I'm Your Man
• If I Were a Carpenter
• In The Morning
• Indian Maiden
• Into The Jungle
• Is It You
• Je Veux De La Tendresse
• Last Night
• Last to Arrive
• Les Aveux
• Like Father Like Son
• Little Island
• Lonely Boy
• Lonely Man
• Lord of The Flies
• Love Adventure
• Love is a Cannibal
• Love is Here to Stay
• Love is Worth Waiting For
• Love So Cold
• Lovesick
• Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever
• Mairi Gay Charan Ko Jatee Hay
• Marching in Milan
• Medicine Man
• Mellow Yellow
• My Strongest Suit
• Needles & Pins
• Not Me
• Queen
• Quick Joey Small
• Red
• Regimental Sergeant Zippo
• Reminds Me of You
• Rollercoaster
• Rolling Western Union
• Rope Around a Fool
• Sara's Coming Back
• Scarecrow
• Season of The Rain
• Sing Me No Sad Songs
• Sitting Doing Nothing
• Snookeroo
• Snow Queen
• Some Other World
• Someone to Watch Over Me
• Song for You
• Stand by Your Man
• Steal Away Child
• Suit of Wolves
• Sweetheart on Parade
• Tactics
• Take Me Down to The Ocean
• Taking The Sun from My Eyes
• Tartan Coloured Lady
• Thank You for All Your Loving
• That's What Friends Are For
• The Flowers Will Never Die
• The Goaldigger Song
• The Gods Love Nubia
• The Last Good Man in My Life
• The Letter
• The Man Who Never Died
• The Measure of a Man
• The Muse
• The Pacifier
• The Tide Will Turn for Rebecca
• There is Still a Little Love
• There's Still Time for Me
• Through The Storm
• Time Has Told Me
• Timothy
• Tortured
• Trio
• Turn to Me
• Velvet Fountain
• Wake up Wendy
• Way to Blue
• When I Was Tealby Abbey
• When The First Tear Shows
• Where It's At
• White Man Danger
• Wild Love
• Woolly Bully
• You'll Be Sorry to See Me Go