Tim Buckley – Goodbye And Hello (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 13:30:18 -0500 From: Dann Butterfield <[email protected]> Subject: CRD: 'Goodbye And Hello' by Tim Buckley (Larry Beckett-Tim Buckley) TIM BUCKLEY >From Goodbye And Hello, 1967 ***** 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. *****
    Am                 D
The antique people are down in the dungeons

Am                  D
Run by machines and afraid of the tax

      Am                           D
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes

Am                          G
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks

   F                     C
Pretending forever their masquerade towers

    G                       Gsus4
Are not really riddled with widening cracks

G
And I wave goodbye to iron

F                      Gm
And smile hello to the air

      Gm           F               Eb
O the new children dance      I am young

    D          Gm                    F
All around the balloons       I will live

Eb         D                       Gm
Swaying by chance             I am strong

       F               Eb           D
To the breeze from the moon   I can give

Gm           F                        Eb
Painting the sky              You the strange

         D         Gm                 F
With the colors of sun        Seed of day

Eb          D                          Gm
Freely they fly               Feel the change

   F          Eb                       D             Gm / F / E D G
As all become one             Know the Way, know the Way
G / / / (x2)
    G                C
The velocity addicts explode on the highway

  G                      C
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast

      G                          C
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe

     G                        C
They run from the cops of the skeleton past

     F                      C
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger

G                            Bb   Am F G
Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast

G
And I wave goodbye to speed

F                    Gm
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
G                               Bb Am  Gm     F
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards

G                           Bb Am Gm   F
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind

Gm                        Bb  Am    Gm   F
All their possessions and transient treasures

Gm                    Bb   Am  Gm    F
As they go to worship the electronic shrine

C                       Eb
On which is playing the late late commercial

        F                      C       G
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind

G
And I wave goodbye to Mammon

F                    Gm
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
    C                   Bb            C
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage

                                Bb         C
And shatter their audience with submachine guns

                             Bb      C
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns

                          Bb            C
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

F                      Gm
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
D                          C
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen

     D                           C
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives

        D                            C
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone

D                             G           F
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives

 D                    C
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies

       D                        G        F
And in secret divorce they will never survive

G
And I wave goodbye to ashes

F                    Gm
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
    Am                 D
The antique people are fading out slowly

     Am                    D
Like newspapers flaming in mind's suicide

Am                    D
Godless and sexless directionless loons

      Am                  G
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide

     F                           C
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily

    G                              Bb Am  F    G
The new children will live for the elders have died

G
And I wave goodbye to America

F                      Gm
And smile hello to the world
** **** ********* submitted by Dann Butterfield comments or corrections welcome at [email protected] ********* **** **