The Ballad Of Casey Deiss chords by Shawn Phillips

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Chords for instrumental final part:

A      = 007650
G6add9 = 005430
Asus2  = 002200

Intro:

Am  C  G  Am (x4)

Verse 1:

Am      C       G        Am
T'was a man of youthful features
        C       G        Am
T'was a boy of sorrowful eyes
          C       G        Am
Watching out but looking inward
           C           G      Am
Tall and stately and full of life

Instrumental:

Am C  G  Am (x2)

Verse 2:

        C       G        Am
In his life, he spoke but rarely
        C       G        Am
In his mind he cried for light
             C          G       Am
Painting perceptions trying to capture
               C           G           Am
That which he saw in his questioning strife

Instrumental:

Am C  G  Am (x2)

Verse 3:

         C        G        Am
Once in Lisbon, twice in London
             C         G          Am
Travelling around for all of his time
         C        G         Am
Looking for and finding a goddess
          C       G      Am
He took Diana to be his wife

Instrumental:

Am C  G  Am (x2)

Verse 4:

         C         G       Am
Of the children, they'd begotten
          C      G            Am
Two had died without knowing life
          C       G        Am
And the third I know not whereof
            C                G     Am
But if she lives, she will yet be kind

Instrumental:

Am C  G  Am (x2)

Verse 5:

             C       G      Am
Casey had a mark of simple value
           C      G        Am
He had a star between his eyes
        C        G       Am
In his hands he held an axe blade
            C         G          Am
The Greek symbol of thunder and fire

Instrumental:

Am C  G  Am (x2)

Verse 6:

      C               G            Am
On a night when the heavens were crying
         C        G        Am
He went out and took his blade
           C      G         Am
Chopping wood to warm his hearthside
               C            G       Am
The lightning came and my brother died

Instrumental:

Am C  G  Am (x4)

Verse 7:

              C         G        Am
Bring him no wine from faraway vineyards
              C            G       Am
Tell him no tales of the canyon's might
               C         G      Am
But wish him peace and eternal wisdom
            C            G       Am
For he has died and he died in light

Instrumental:

Am  C   G   Am (x9)

A  G6add9 (x2)

Asus2  F#  E  G  Abm  B

Am  C   G   Am (x8)