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#Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 13:30:18 -0500
#From: Dann Butterfield
#Subject: CRD: 'Goodbye And Hello' by Tim Buckley
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#Goodbye And Hello
#(Larry Beckett-Tim Buckley)
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#TIM BUCKLEY
#>From Goodbye And Hello, 1967
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#Okay, here goes...This is played capoed at the first fret.
#The chords for the 'O the new children' parts are all the same.
#Listen to the song to find out how it goes.
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AmD
The antique people are down in the dungeons
AmD
Run by machines and afraid of the tax
AmD
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes
AmG
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks
FC
Pretending forever their masquerade towers
GGsus4
Are not really riddled with widening cracks
G
And I wave goodbye to iron
FGm
And smile hello to the air
GmFEb
O the new children dance I am young
DGmF
All around the balloons I will live
EbDGm
Swaying by chance I am strong
FEbD
To the breeze from the moon I can give
GmFEb
Painting the sky You the strange
DGmF
With the colors of sun Seed of day
EbDGm
Freely they fly Feel the change
FEbDGmFEDG
As all become one Know the Way, know the Way
G / / / (x2)
GC
The velocity addicts explode on the highway
GC
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast
GC
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe
GC
They run from the cops of the skeleton past
FC
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger
GBbAmFG
Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast
G
And I wave goodbye to speed
FGm
And smile hello to a rose
O the new children play I am young
Under juniper trees I will live
Sky blue or grey I am strong
They continue at ease I can give
Moving so slow You the strange
That serenely they can Seed of day
Gracefully grow Feel the change
And yes still understand Know the Way
GBbAmGmF
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards
GBbAmGmF
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind
GmBbAmGmF
All their possessions and transient treasures
GmBbAmGmF
As they go to worship the electronic shrine
CEb
On which is playing the late late commercial
FCG
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind
G
And I wave goodbye to Mammon
FGm
And smile hello to a stream
O the new children buy I am young
All the world for a song I will live
Without a dime I am strong
To which they belong I can give
Nobody owns You the strange
Anything anywhere Seed of day
Everyone's grown Feel the change
Up so big they can share Know the Way
CBbC
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage
BbC
And shatter their audience with submachine guns
BbC
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns
BbC
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons
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While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"
(N.C.)
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun
G
And I wave goodbye to murder
FGm
And smile hello to the rain
O the new children can't I am young
Tell a foe from a friend I will live
Quick to enchant I am strong
And so glad to extend I can give
Handfuls of dawn You the strange
To kaleidoscope men Seed of day
Come from beyond Feel the change
The Great Wall of Skin Know the Way
DC
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen
DC
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives
DC
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone
DGF
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives
DC
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies
DGF
And in secret divorce they will never survive
G
And I wave goodbye to ashes
FGm
And smile hello to a girl
O the new children kiss I am young
They are so proud to learn I will live
Womanwood bliss I am strong
And the manfire that burns I can give
Knowing no fear You the strange
They take off their clothes Seed of day
Honest and clear Feel the change
As a river that flows Know the Way
AmD
The antique people are fading out slowly
AmD
Like newspapers flaming in mind's suicide
AmD
Godless and sexless directionless loons
AmG
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide
FC
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily
GBbAmFG
The new children will live for the elders have died
G
And I wave goodbye to America
FGm
And smile hello to the world
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submitted by Dann Butterfield
comments or corrections welcome at drumbo@geocities.com
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