Bonnie "Prince" Billy – Crazy Blue Bells (Guitar)

Capo 1
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Chords

As recorded by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (From the 2023 Album KEEPING SECRETS WILL DESTROY YOU) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy plays this song with a capo at 6th fret. To do so transpose -5 steps. [Intro] C G D A C G D Am [Verse 1]
Am
Someday, when there's time to sing

  G
A few of us will gather

    F
And raise a voice to anything

  Dm
Because everything matters
[Verse 2]
Am
My hand on my mother's hand

    G
And her hand on my daughters

   F
My daughter's hand on the hand of who

     Dm
Will lead us into slaughter
[Chorus]
        A               E
And our voices join the sound

   D          A      Am
Of crazy blue bells
[Verse 3]
Am
Dust that's gathered on our hearts

G
Will be blown and dispersed

      F
Our interest in the darker arts

   Dm
No longer coming first
[Verse 4]
    Am
Practitioners of love and touch:

G
Legalized and praised

F
And a "fuck you very much"

       Dm
To thе greedy and the crazed
[Chorus]
        A               E
And our voices join the sound

   D          A
Of crazy blue bells
[Bridge]
C                        D
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!

                                   A
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!

C                        G         D
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!

                    A
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!

C                   G
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!

D                   A
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!

C                   G                   D    Am
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding!
[Verse 5]
Am
Flowers from the ends of time

    G
Are blooming in our hearts

F
Catastrophe is where you'll find

               Dm
That real self-knowledge starts
[Verse 6]
Am
Count backwards from the very end

      G
Until you reach ignition

F
Blast off into love, my friend

Dm
And decimate cognition
[Chorus]
    A                   E        D          A
And our voices join the sound of crazy blue bells

A
Blue bells unfurl and make wild noise

   E
In tumult we unite

D
Our prayers are answered

                 A
And our joys are finally in sight
[Chorus 2]
A                                E
And our voices join the sound of crazy blue bells

D
How those bells will pound

    A
And how our lives will swell!

                        E        D          A
And our voices join the sound of crazy blue bells
[Outro] A C G D A