Goodbye And Hello
(Larry Beckett-Tim Buckley)

TIM BUCKLEY
>From Goodbye And Hello, 1967

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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.
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    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 -->)
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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