Goodbye And Hello chords by Tim Buckley

Chords with lyrics

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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  A minorAm         D MajorD
The antique people are down ...
A minorAm         D MajorD
Run by machines and ...
   A minorAm              D MajorD
Their heads in the grave and ...
A minorAm             G+G
Hauling their hearts around ...
  FF           C majorC
Pretending forever their ...
  G+G            Gsus4Gsus4
Are not really ...
G+G
And I wave goodbye ...
FF           G minorGm
And smile hello to ...

   G minorGm      FF        Eb MajorEb
O the new children ...
  D MajorD     G minorGm          FF
All around the ...
Eb MajorEb     D MajorD            G minorGm
Swaying by ...
    FF        Eb MajorEb      D MajorD
To the breeze from ...
G minorGm      FF            Eb MajorEb
Painting the ...
     D MajorD     G minorGm         FF
With the colors of sun...
Eb MajorEb     D MajorD             G minorGm
Freely they ...
  FF     Eb MajorEb            D MajorD       G minorGm / FF / E MajorE D MajorD G+G
As all become one       ....
G+G / / / (x2)

  G+G        C majorC
The velocity addicts ...
 G+G           C majorC
Ignoring the journey ...
   G+G             C majorC
Their nerves fall apart and ...
   G+G            C majorC
They run from the cops....
   FF           C majorC
Petrified by tradition in a ...
G+G              Bb majorBb  A minorAm FF G+G
Into nowhere at all ...
G+G
And I wave ...
FF          G minorGm
And smile hello ...

O the new children play  I am ....

G+G                Bb majorBb A minorAm G minorGm   FF
The king and the queen ...
G+G              Bb majorBb A minorAm G minorGm  FF
Sleepwalk down the hallways ...
G minorGm            Bb majorBb A minorAm  G minorGm  FF
All their possessions and ...
G minorGm          Bb majorBb  A minorAm G minorGm  FF
As they go to wor....
C majorC            Eb MajorEb
On which is ...
    FF           C majorC    G+G
In that hollowest ...
G+G
And I wave ...
FF          G minorGm
And smile hello ...

O the new children buy  I am .....

  C majorC          Bb majorBb      C majorC
The vaudeville generals ....
                Bb majorBb     C majorC
And shatter their audience ....
               Bb majorBb   C majorC
And Freedom ....
             Bb majorBb      C majorC
Do a balancing act on the ...

(single notes mostly matching melody - suggested tab -->)
-0-2-3-2-0----------------
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While the tapdancing ...
(N.C.)
And Love the Magician ....
G+G
And I wave goodbye ...
FF           G minorGm
And smile ....

O the new children can't  I am ....

D MajorD             C majorC
The bloodless husbands are ...
   D MajorD              C majorC
Like sheep to the shrieks and ....
    D MajorD              C majorC
And the men who aren't ....
D MajorD               G+G      FF
See them all faking love on ...
 D MajorD          C majorC
Afraid to discover ...
    D MajorD            G+G    FF
And in secret ...
G+G
And I wave ...
FF          G minorGm
And smile ....

O the new children kiss    I am ....

  A minorAm         D MajorD
The antique people ....
   A minorAm          D MajorD
Like newspapers flaming ...
A minorAm          D MajorD
Godless and sexless ....
   A minorAm         G+G
Their sham sandcastles ...
   FF              C majorC
They put on their ...
  G+G               Bb majorBb A minorAm FF  G+G
The new children will live for ...
G+G
And I wave goodbye ...
FF           G minorGm
And smile hello to ...

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submitted by Dann Butterfield
comments or corrections welcome at [email protected]
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