Biography:
The Civil Wars were an American musical duo composed of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White. After releasing a live-performance album and a four-song EP, their full-length album Barton Hollow was released in 2011. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Folk Album in 2012.
Williams and White met in 2008, during a song-writing session or "writing camp" at a music studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Other songs:
- 20 Years
- Barton Hollow
- Between The Bars
- Birds Of A Feather
- Cest La Mort
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
- Devils Backbone
- Disarm
- Dust To Dust
- Falling
- Forget Me Not
- From This Valley
- Girl With The Red Balloon
- I Had Me A Girl
- I've Got This Friend
- If I Didn't Know Better
- Kingdom Come
- Poison And Wine
- Sour Times
- The Girl With The Red Balloon
- Tip Of My Tongue
- To Whom It May Concern
- C’est La Mort
- Devil’s Backbone
- Eavesdrop
- I’ve Got This Friend
- The One That Got Away
- You Are My Sunshine
- Billie Jean
- Go
- Goodbye Girl
- I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
- I Want You Back
- If I Didnt Know Better
- Ive Got This Friend
- Lily Love
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Oh Henry
- One That Got Away
- Sacred Heart
- Same Old Same Old
- Tell Mama
- Tracks In The Snow
Four years of hard work!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
GIRL WITH THE RED BALLOON - The Civil Wars
Tabbed by: Macheeoo
Email: macheeoo@yahoo.com
Tuning: Standard
***NOTE: Play the song in a polka fashion, waltzy if
you will in a 3/4 time signature I believe (never took music theory...)
[Intro]
Am E Am E x4
[Verse]
Am E Am E Am E Am E Am C/B (Walk Up)
There's a pub on the South side of town
C G Dm E Am
Time stands still while there's still wine around
Am E Am E Am E Am C/B
She's the one in the calico
C G Dm E Am
The one who's always and never alone
[Chorus]
F C Bm7b5
Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away
E
Oooh - Does she even know
E E
She's the girl with the red balloon
[Interlude]
Am E Am E x4
[Verse]
Am E Am E Am E Am C/B
Keep her glass full of cheap champagne
C G Dm E Am
She will tell of a man with no name
Am E Am E Am E Am C/B
Smoke and mirrors have done her in
C G Dm E Am
She's in love and she won't be again
[Chorus]
F C Bm7b5
Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away
E
Oooh - Does she even know
E E
She's the girl with the red balloon
[Interlude]
Am E Am E x4
[Bridge]
Am E Am E
So lovely
Am E Am E
So lonely
Am E
Floating away
[Chorus]
F C Bm7b5
Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away
E
Oooh - Does she even know
E E
She's the girl with the red balloon
E E
She's the girl - with the red - balloon
[Outro]
Am E Am E x4
Tabbed by: Macheeoo
Email: macheeoo@yahoo.com
Tuning: Standard
***NOTE: Play the song in a polka fashion, waltzy if
you will in a 3/4 time signature I believe (never took music theory...)
[Intro]
Am E Am E x4
[Verse]
Am E Am E Am E Am E Am C/B (Walk Up)
There's a pub on the South side of town
C G Dm E Am
Time stands still while there's still wine around
Am E Am E Am E Am C/B
She's the one in the calico
C G Dm E Am
The one who's always and never alone
[Chorus]
F C Bm7b5
Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away
E
Oooh - Does she even know
E E
She's the girl with the red balloon
[Interlude]
Am E Am E x4
[Verse]
Am E Am E Am E Am C/B
Keep her glass full of cheap champagne
C G Dm E Am
She will tell of a man with no name
Am E Am E Am E Am C/B
Smoke and mirrors have done her in
C G Dm E Am
She's in love and she won't be again
[Chorus]
F C Bm7b5
Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away
E
Oooh - Does she even know
E E
She's the girl with the red balloon
[Interlude]
Am E Am E x4
[Bridge]
Am E Am E
So lovely
Am E Am E
So lonely
Am E
Floating away
[Chorus]
F C Bm7b5
Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away
E
Oooh - Does she even know
E E
She's the girl with the red balloon
E E
She's the girl - with the red - balloon
[Outro]
Am E Am E x4
