The Ballad of a Crystal Man

The Ballad of a Crystal Man.***Donovan https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/donovan/the-ballad-of-a-crystal-man-chords-765507

*CAPO 4th FRET*(Original Key: B)

Intro:

G C, G D (x4)

Verse 1:

G C

Walk along and talk along,

G D G C, G D

And live your lives quite freely.

G C

But leave our children with their toys,

G D G C, G D

Of peppermint and candy.

G C

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

G D G

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 2:

G C

Your thoughts they are of harlequin,

G D G C, G D

Your speeches of quick-silver.

G C

I read your faces like a poem,

G D G C, G D

Ka-leidoscope of hate words.

G C

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

G D G

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 3:

G C

On the quilted battle-fields of soldiers,

G D G C, G D

Dazzling made of toy tin.

G C

The big bomb, like a child's hand,

G D G C, G D

Could sweep them dead just so to win.

G C

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

G D G

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 4:

G C

As you fill your glasses,

G D G C, G D

With the wine of murdered Negroes.

G C

Thinking not of beauty that,

G D G C, G D

Spreads like morning sun-glow.

G C

Seagull, I don't want your wings,

G D G

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 5:

G C

I pray your dreams of vivid screams,

G D G C, G D

Of children dying slowly.

G C

And as you polish up your guns,

G D G C, G D

Your real self be re-flecting.

G C

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

G D G

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Interlude:

G C, G D (x4)

Verse 6:

G C

Vietnam; your latest game,

G D G C, G D

You're playing with your blackest Queen.

G C

Damn your souls and curse your grins,

G D G C, G D

I stand here with a fading dream.

G C

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

G D G

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Outro:

G C, G D (x8), G

CHORD DIAGRAMS:

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G C D

EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE

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