Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch), es un cantautor, poeta y guitarrista escocés nacido el 10 de mayo de 1946, en Maryhill, Glasgow. Emergió a mediados de los '60 como cantante folk, lo que le valió ser llamado el Bob Dylan británico, pero pronto se desató de esa etiqueta convirtiéndose en uno de los mayores representantes de la psicodelia de mediados y finales de los sesenta, con un estilo muy personal que fusionaba Jazz, Folk, Rock, y Música étnica.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
...THE BALLAD OF A CRYSTAL MAN... by Donovan ---------------------------------...........
*from 'Fairytale' (1965)*
*CAPO 4th FRET*
(Original Key: B)
Intro:
GC, GD (x4)
Verse 1:
GC Walk along and talk along, GDGC, GD And live your lives quite freely. GC But leave our children with their toys, GDGC, GD Of peppermint and candy. GC For seagull, I don't want your wings, GDG I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 2:
GC Your thoughts they are of harlequin, GDGC, GD Your speeches of quick-silver. GC I read your faces like a poem, GDGC, GD Ka-leidoscope of hate words. GC For seagull, I don't want your wings, GDG I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 3:
GC On the quilted battle-fields of soldiers, GDGC, GD Dazzling made of toy tin. GC The big bomb, like a child's hand, GDGC, GD Could sweep them dead just so to win. GC For seagull, I don't want your wings, GDG I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 4:
GC As you fill your glasses, GDGC, GD With the wine of murdered Negroes. GC Thinking not of beauty that, GDGC, GD Spreads like morning sun-glow. GC Seagull, I don't want your wings, GDG I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 5:
GC I pray your dreams of vivid screams, GDGC, GD Of children dying slowly. GC And as you polish up your guns, GDGC, GD Your real self be re-flecting. GC For seagull, I don't want your wings, GDG I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Interlude:
GC, GD (x4)
Verse 6:
GC Vietnam; your latest game, GDGC, GD You're playing with your blackest Queen. GC Damn your souls and curse your grins, GDGC, GD I stand here with a fading dream. GC For seagull, I don't want your wings, GDG I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Outro:
GC, GD (x8), G
CHORD DIAGRAMS: ---------------
GCD
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 320003 x32010 xx0232
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007 ([email protected])