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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GIRL WITH THE RED BALLOON - The Civil Wars Tabbed by: Macheeoo Email: [email protected]
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] AmEAmE x4
[Verse] AmEAmEAmEAmEAmC/B (Walk Up) There's a pub on the South side of town CGDmEAm Time stands still while there's still wine around AmEAmEAmEAmC/B She's the one in the calico CGDmEAm The one who's always and never alone
[Chorus] FCBm7b5 Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away E Oooh - Does she even know EE She's the girl with the red balloon
[Interlude] AmEAmE x4
[Verse] AmEAmEAmEAmC/B Keep her glass full of cheap champagne CGDmEAm She will tell of a man with no name AmEAmEAmEAmC/B Smoke and mirrors have done her in CGDmEAm She's in love and she won't be again
[Chorus] FCBm7b5 Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away E Oooh - Does she even know EE She's the girl with the red balloon
[Interlude] AmEAmE x4
[Bridge] AmEAmE So lovely AmEAmE So lonely AmE Floating away
[Chorus] FCBm7b5 Oooh - Did she let him go or did the four winds blow him away E Oooh - Does she even know EE She's the girl with the red balloon EE She's the girl - with the red - balloon