Galuppi Baldessare chords by Kris Delmhorst

Chords with lyrics

Kris Delmhorst - Galuppi Baldessare



  C majorC       C/BC/B      A minorAm       FF
Oh, Galuppi Baldassare, though I never knew your name
   C majorC       C/BC/B       A minorAm        FF
It's thanks to Mr. Browning you are with us just the same
G+G            G7G7
Thanks to Mr. Browning, blowing on the flame


       C majorC
Well here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings
       FF                           C majorC
You say they lived like this in Venice, when the merchants were the kings
       G+G                FF     G+G  C majorC
And though I never left old Boston, still you showed me everything

    C majorC
Did the young folks take their pleasure? Was the ocean warm in May?
    FF                         C majorC
Did the parties start at midnight, did they roll until midday?
      G+G                  FF     G+G    C majorC
And did the ladies bloom like bellflowers, every time you'd start to play?


    C majorC
Well, I bet that they all loved you, I bet they stood around and cheered
     FF                          C majorC
Saying, "That's what I call music, good for joy and good for tears.
  G+G                FF   G+G    C majorC
Now let's stop all this talking, and let it fill our ears?


     A minorAm        G+G      E minorEm        FF
Well, the minor third's so bitter, the six chord like a sigh
G+G                  A minorAm      Am/GAm/G     D/F#D/F#
Suspension, solution, asking must we die, must we die, must we die?
    FF              G+G
And the seventh says, "Well fellas, life might not last, but we can try"


      C majorC
So were you happy? I was happy. You still happy? Yes, and you?
     FF                          C majorC
Then more kisses! Why'd we stop them, when a million seemed so few?
    G+G                FF    G+G    C majorC
There's something in that music, lord it must be answered to

     A minorAm         G+G      E minorEm       FF
Then they left you for their fortunes, in due time one by one
     G+G                       A minorAm      Am/GAm/G      D/F#D/F#
Some had lives that came to nothing, some went and did things they'd better not have done
     FF               G+G
And then death stepped up and took 'em where they'll never see the sun


    C majorC
Oh, but you, you ghostly cricket, singing where the house has burned
     FF                          C majorC
"Dust and ashes, dead and done with, Venice spent what Venice earned"
      G+G               FF    G+G   C majorC
But what's left behind I wonder, when the kissing has adjourned?


     C majorC
?Dust and ashes?, so you tell me, and I cannot say you're wrong
      FF                          C majorC
Still those dear dead dancing ladies with their hair so soft and long
    G+G               FF    G+G     C majorC
Stir a little in their slumber, every time we play your song


      A minorAm         G+G      E minorEm         FF
'Cause the minor third's still bitter, the six chord makes us sigh
G+G                  A minorAm    Am/GAm/G   D/F#D/F#
Suspension, solution, asking must we die, must we also die?
    FF             G+G                C majorC   C/BC/B A minorAm FF
And the seventh still says, "Well, life might not last, but we can try"


OUTRO: C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm FF

 C majorC      C/BC/B
Galuppi Baldassare
 A minorAm     FF
Galuppi Baldassare
 C majorC      C/BC/B  A minorAm FF C majorC
Galuppi, oh Galuppi