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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 13:30:18 -0500
From: Dann Butterfield <
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Subject: CRD: Goodbye And Hello by Tim Buckley
Goodbye And Hello
(Larry Beckett-Tim Buckley)
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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The antique people are down in the dungeons[/tab]
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Run by machines and afraid of the tax[/tab]
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Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes[/tab]
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Hauling their hearts around circular tracks[/tab]
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Pretending forever their masquerade towers[/tab]
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Are not really riddled with widening cracks[/tab]
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And I wave goodbye to iron[/tab]
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And smile hello to the air[/tab]
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O the new children dance I am young[/tab]
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All around the balloons I will live[/tab]
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Swaying by chance I am strong[/tab]
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To the breeze from the moon I can give[/tab]
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Painting the sky You the strange[/tab]
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With the colors of sun Seed of day[/tab]
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Freely they fly Feel the change[/tab]
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As all become one Know the Way, know the Way[/tab]
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The velocity addicts explode on the highway[/tab]
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Ignoring the journey and moving so fast[/tab]
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Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can t breathe[/tab]
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They run from the cops of the skeleton past[/tab]
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Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger[/tab]
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Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast[/tab]
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And I wave goodbye to speed[/tab]
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And smile hello to a rose[/tab]
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
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The king and the queen in their castle of billboards[/tab]
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Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind[/tab]
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All their possessions and transient treasures[/tab]
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As they go to worship the electronic shrine[/tab]
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On which is playing the late late commercial[/tab]
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In that hollowest house of the opulent blind[/tab]
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And I wave goodbye to Mammon[/tab]
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And smile hello to a stream[/tab]
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
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The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage[/tab]
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And shatter their audience with submachine guns[/tab]
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And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns[/tab]
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Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons[/tab]
[tab](single notes mostly matching melody - suggested tab -->)
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While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"
(N.C.)
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun[/tab]
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And I wave goodbye to murder[/tab]
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And smile hello to the rain[/tab]
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
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The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen[/tab]
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Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives[/tab]
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And the men who aren t men leave the women alone[/tab]
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See them all faking love on a bed made of knives[/tab]
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Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies[/tab]
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And in secret divorce they will never survive[/tab]
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And I wave goodbye to ashes[/tab]
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And smile hello to a girl[/tab]
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
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The antique people are fading out slowly[/tab]
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Like newspapers flaming in mind s suicide[/tab]
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Godless and sexless directionless loons[/tab]
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Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide[/tab]
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They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily[/tab]
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The new children will live for the elders have died[/tab]
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And I wave goodbye to America[/tab]
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And smile hello to the world[/tab]
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submitted by Dann Butterfield
comments or corrections welcome at
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