(Music: E. John/Lyrics: B. Taupin / Live at Mercury Lounge in New York on New
Year's Eve December 31 1995)


I used to know this old scarecrow
He was my song
My joy and sorrow

Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone


I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind

Not to return
When summer burned the earth again


Oh oh oh, oh oh oh....

Cultivate the freshest flower

This garden ever grew
Beneath these branches
I once wrote such childish words for you


But that's okay
There's treasure children always seek to find

And just like us
You must have had
A once upon a time


Oh oh oh, oh oh oh....