The Ballad Of A Crystal Man

...THE BALLAD OF A CRYSTAL MAN... by Donovan

*from 'Fairytale' (1965)*

(Original Key: B)

Intro:

Verse 1:

Walk along and talk along,

And live your lives quite freely.

But leave our children with their toys,

Of peppermint and candy.

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 2:

Your thoughts they are of harlequin,

Your speeches of quick-silver.

I read your faces like a poem,

Ka-leidoscope of hate words.

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 3:

On the quilted battle-fields of soldiers,

Dazzling made of toy tin.

The big bomb, like a child's hand,

Could sweep them dead just so to win.

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 4:

As you fill your glasses,

With the wine of murdered Negroes.

Thinking not of beauty that,

Spreads like morning sun-glow.

Seagull, I don't want your wings,

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Verse 5:

I pray your dreams of vivid screams,

Of children dying slowly.

And as you polish up your guns,

Your real self be re-flecting.

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Interlude:

Verse 6:

Vietnam; your latest game,

You're playing with your blackest Queen.

Damn your souls and curse your grins,

I stand here with a fading dream.

For seagull, I don't want your wings,

I don't want your freedom, in a lie.

Outro:

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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)