Donovan Leitch nasceu em 10/05/1946 em Glasgow (Escócia).
Aprendeu cedo a tocar guitarra, tinha talento com os instrumentos e a música folk, como Woody Guthrie. Com 18 anos foi convidado para tocar em um programa de TV chamado "Ready Steady Go".
Com seu álbum de 1965 "What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid", Donovan fora, à época, comumente comparado a Bob Dylan. Mas Donavan era diferente. No mesmo ano, entretanto, o álbum "Fairytale" denota uma evolução singular em suas composições
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
...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])