Goodbye And Hello (Larry Beckett-Tim Buckley) TIM BUCKLEY >From Goodbye And Hello, 1967 ***** 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. ***** A5 D5 The antique people are down in the dungeons A5 D5 Run by machines and afraid of the tax A5 D5 Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes A5 G5 Hauling their hearts around circular tracks F5 C5 Pretending forever their masquerade towers G5 G5 Are not really riddled with widening cracks G5 And I wave goodbye to iron F5 G5 And smile hello to the air G5 F5 Eb5 O the new children dance I am young D5 G5 F5 All around the balloons I will live Eb5 D5 G5 Swaying by chance I am strong F5 Eb5 D5 To the breeze from the moon I can give G5 F5 Eb5 Painting the sky You the strange D5 G5 F5 With the colors of sun Seed of day Eb5 D5 G5 Freely they fly Feel the change F5 Eb5 D5 G5 / F5 / E5 D5 G5 As all become one Know the Way, know the Way G / / / (x2) G5 C5 The velocity addicts explode on the highway G5 C5 Ignoring the journey and moving so fast G5 C5 Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe G5 C5 They run from the cops of the skeleton past F5 C5 Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger G5 Bb5 A5 F5 G5 Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast G5 And I wave goodbye to speed F5 G5 And smile hello to a rose O the new children play I am young Under juniper trees I will live Sky blue or grey I am strong They continue at ease I can give Moving so slow You the strange That serenely they can Seed of day Gracefully grow Feel the change And yes still understand Know the Way G5 Bb5 A5 G5 F5 The king and the queen in their castle of billboards G5 Bb5 A5 G5 F5 Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind G5 Bb5 A5 G5 F5 All their possessions and transient treasures G5 Bb5 A5 G5 F5 As they go to worship the electronic shrine C5 Eb5 On which is playing the late late commercial F5 C5 G5 In that hollowest house of the opulent blind G5 And I wave goodbye to Mammon F5 G5 And smile hello to a stream O the new children buy I am young All the world for a song I will live Without a dime I am strong To which they belong I can give Nobody owns You the strange Anything anywhere Seed of day Everyone's grown Feel the change Up so big they can share Know the Way C5 Bb5 C5 The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage Bb5 C5 And shatter their audience with submachine guns Bb5 C5 And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns Bb5 C5 Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons (single notes mostly matching melody - suggested tab -->) -0-2-3-2-0---------------- | -----------1-3-1-0-------- | -------------------2-0---- | -----------------------0-- | -------------------------- | -------------------------- | While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace" (N.C.) And Love the Magician disappears in the fun G5 And I wave goodbye to murder F5 G5 And smile hello to the rain O the new children can't I am young Tell a foe from a friend I will live Quick to enchant I am strong And so glad to extend I can give Handfuls of dawn You the strange To kaleidoscope men Seed of day Come from beyond Feel the change The Great Wall of Skin Know the Way D5 C5 The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen D5 C5 Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives D5 C5 And the men who aren't men leave the women alone D5 G5 F5 See them all faking love on a bed made of knives D5 C5 Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies D5 G5 F5 And in secret divorce they will never survive G5 And I wave goodbye to ashes F5 G5 And smile hello to a girl O the new children kiss I am young They are so proud to learn I will live Womanwood bliss I am strong And the manfire that burns I can give Knowing no fear You the strange They take off their clothes Seed of day Honest and clear Feel the change As a river that flows Know the Way A5 D5 The antique people are fading out slowly A5 D5 Like newspapers flaming in mind's suicide A5 D5 Godless and sexless directionless loons A5 G5 Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide F5 C5 They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily G5 Bb5 A5 F5 G5 The new children will live for the elders have died G5 And I wave goodbye to America F5 G5 And smile hello to the world