Donovan – The Ballad Of A Crystal Man (Ukulele)

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---------------------------------........... *from 'Fairytale' (1965)* (Original Key: E) Intro: F F, F G (x4) Verse 1:
F               F
 Walk along and talk along,

    F                     G      F  F, F  G
And live your lives quite freely.

    F                  F
But leave our children with their toys,

   F              G     F  F, F  G
Of peppermint and candy.

    F                F
For seagull, I don't want your wings,

F                  G             F
 I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 2:
     F                    F
Your thoughts they are of harlequin,

     F                 G     F  F, F  G
Your speeches of quick-silver.

  F               F
I read your faces like a poem,

   F             G          F  F, F  G
Ka-leidoscope of hate words.

    F                F
For seagull, I don't want your wings,

F                  G             F
 I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 3:
       F              F
On the quilted battle-fields of soldiers,

F                 G       F  F, F  G
 Dazzling made of toy tin.

    F                F
The big bomb, like a child's hand,

      F                    G         F  F, F  G
Could sweep them dead just so to win.

    F                F
For seagull, I don't want your wings,

F                  G             F
 I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 4:
F                 F
 As you fill your glasses,

         F                G       F  F, F  G
With the wine of murdered Negroes.

F                F
 Thinking not of beauty that,

F                     G        F  F, F  G
 Spreads like morning sun-glow.

F                 F
 Seagull, I don't want your wings,

F                  G             F
 I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 5:
  F                   F
I pray your dreams of vivid screams,

   F              G      F  F, F  G
Of children dying slowly.

    F             F
And as you polish up your guns,

     F               G        F  F, F  G
Your real self be re-flecting.

    F                F
For seagull, I don't want your wings,

F                  G             F
 I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Interlude: F F, F G (x4) Verse 6:
F              F
 Vietnam; your latest game,

       F                 G              F  F, F  G
You're playing with your blackest Queen.

F                    F
 Damn your souls and curse your grins,

  F                 G            F  F, F  G
I stand here with a fading dream.

    F                F
For seagull, I don't want your wings,

F                  G             F
 I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Outro: F F, F G (x8), F CHORD DIAGRAMS: --------------- F F G EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 320003 x32010 xx0232 Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007 ([email protected])