The Ballad Of Glen Campbell chords by The Royston Club

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C#m

[Instrumental intro]
E B C#m A (one round fingerpicked)

E B C#m A (two rounds strummed)

Verse:

E
Don't say it aloud
B      C#m
But my tears have all dried and frozen
A       E                         B
Waiting whole months in the black
        C#m                           A       E
Till my yesterdays joined and started feeling new
        B              C#m
There's comfort in the panic of watching love blur and skew

A Am

Post-chorus:

        E       B      F#m
I'm now finally moving along
A      B
Needed someone to

Verse:

E
Cling to
     B          C#m
When I'm at the drop
                 E                             B
Oh, I swing from longing to apathy in a breath
C#m                                 A
Certain of nothing but the next cigarette
E                                  B
At the drop, at the closing of the pits
C#m
Oh, I felt the sting of love's once hidden whip

         A            Am
Then you came out the gray
        E            B
How you stumbled in, built a bed
F#m          G#m
Cut my hair, shaved my face

A                   Am
I felt her slipping away
       E            B               A         B
Like a stone at the surface of your beautiful lake

B

Chorus:

E                         B
Now I can't remember
C#m               N.C.
The autumn rides
E                         B
The scratching of winter
C#m                       A
The fallen sand

    C#m         N.C.        G#m        N.C.
Oh, baby you're killing all four of us softly
   B                      B/Bb
We woke in the morning to Glen Travis Campbell
A
And I swear I've never felt so


E         F#m         G#m
New
    A                 E
Oh, I'm so smitten by you

F#m       G#m

A
Darling, this matador, beautiful semaphore
Am                         Asus2
You could convince me that nothing else matters at all

[Instrumental bridge]
E B C#m A (two rounds fingerpicking)

Verse:
E B C#m A

E
Don't say it aloud
B      C#m
But my tears have all dried and frozen
A       E
Waiting whole months in the black
B       C#m                           A       E
Till my yesterdays joined and started feeling new
        B              C#m
                       A                     E
There's comfort in the panic of the blur and skew
        B
  C#m                     A
I chased every feeling to empty for you

Chorus:
E
            B
Now I can't remember
           C#m    A    E
The autumn rides
                     B   C#m
The scratching of winter
           A
The fallen sand
    E                                  B
Oh, baby you're killing all four of us softly
   C#m                       A
We came down that morning to Glen Travis Campbell
    E                  B       C#m
And I swear I've never felt so new
    N.C.
Oh, I'm so smitten by you

Verse:
E B C#m A (x4)

[Voiceover]
E B C#m A (x2)
E B C#m

Outro:
E B C#m
A (single strum)