Red Balloon Chords by Vagabond Opera

[C] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] In 1873, _ Dr.
Xander [Bb] Gerrymander ascended the heavens in his [Eb] marvelous red [Gm] balloon. _
[Cm] There, to ponder the [Fm] cosmic verities, _ sail above [Bb] the blue and see the [G] stars.
_ _ _ [Fm] With him, he took his sweetheart [Eb] Nell, and together they danced [Cm] buoyantly above the blue. _
[Bb] Until one sad day, she was [Fm] lost to him.
And so [Eb] he's still there today, searching, [G] _ seeking, in his marvelous red balloon.
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_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ The other night I had a [Fm] dream, you came to me as though it seemed, [Bb] on a vessel of hot, [Eb] gleaming [G] wrath.
[Cm] An impetus upon the wing, [Fm] you offered me golden rain, [Bb] and so I left my dreams [G] within the vat.
I [Cm] jumped aboard with nightcap on, [Fm] the moon went up, the current [Bb] strong, we rose into this silver, [Eb] dusty glow.
[G] _ [Cm] The whistle spoke above the cloak [Fm] of factories that billowed [G] smoke over the city of Bordeaux.
Oh, [Fm] the captain and the ballast boy [Eb] played a waltz on clocks and toys, [Cm] we set our sights for glory and [Bb] the sea.
[Gm] _ [Fm] We fired the gas, and soon we [Cm] passed painted ships all made of brown, [G] we sailed in orbit _ astrologically.
_ _ [Fm] You promised me a lullaby, [Eb] and we built castles in the [Cm] sky, fashioned from the [Bb] flowers that we grew.
And [Fm] then the wind's song was [Cm] strange, and we both knew that things would change, and [G] so you left me floating in the blue.
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_ Oh, winds, carry [Eb]
me, carry [Gm] me far [D] away, [Cm] until another day, until another [Eb]
June.
I'll be floating [D] in the dark, whispering [Db] like a lark on this [Cm] gadabout balloon.
_ [Eb] Carry me, [Gm] carry me far [Cm] away, until another day, until [Eb] another June.
I'll be floating in the [D] dark, whispering like [Db] a lark [Gm] on this [C] gadabout balloon. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Cm] Six degrees port, [Gm]
steady as she goes, [Fm] aiming up, [Ab] off we [Eb] go.
[Cm] _ _ [G] I'm the mainsail, you're the mast.
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[Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ Two [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ lovers, [Bb] _ _
_ floating in the [Cm] atmosphere, _ [Dm] _
[C] _ _ _ [Fm] and I will [Bb] always be your [Eb] faithful _ [Ab] cavalier. _
[Eb] _ _ Oh, [Abm] and just like [G] the tales of Der Lanz in [Eb] _ _ _
Brondeyers,
Oh, [Fm] may we float among the stars, I your [G] valiant gondolier. _ _
_ [Ab] _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Cm] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ The other night I had a dream, [Fm] you came to me as so it seemed, [Bb] on a zeppelin made of crystal, made [Eb] of glass.
[G] _ [Cm] Upon a steamed calliope, [Fm] you sat and played a song for [Bb] me, a shanty from [Gm] a vagrant midnight mass.
Oh, [Cm] we puffed a pipe of Turkish moss, [Fm] and set course for the [Bb] Albatross, a sea of silver profits [Eb] on the wing.
[G] _ [Cm] And through the captain's telescope, [Fm] you gazed in the lure ring of [G] smoke, and then we bade farewell into the spring.
Oh, [Fm] you were like a dusty rope, [Eb] a narrow shot from heaven's [Cm] ball, a chanson ever haunting to [Bb]
my [Dm] ear.
Oh, [Fm] and for better or for [Cm] worse, we knew this was the final verse, an [G] ode of time soon to disappear.
_ Ah, [Fm] the anchorman was ill-content, [Cm] and sang a song of sweet lament, while I flipped pennies through [Gm] the sky.
[Fm] And bade farewell to you, my [Eb] love, the stormy romance up above [G] a tale, shut to _ electrify.
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] Oh, and _ carry [Eb] me, carry [Gm] _
me far [Cm] away, until another day, until another [Eb] June.
I'll be floating [Dm] in the dark, whispering like a [Db] lark on the sky [Cm] above Baloo.
_ _ [Eb] Carry me, [Gm] carry me far [Cm] away, until another day, until [Eb] another June.
I'll be floating in the [D] dark, whispering like [Db] a lark on the sky [Cm] above Baloo.
_ Carry [Eb] me, [Gm] carry me far [Fm] away, until [Cm] another day, until another [Eb] June.
I'll be floating in [D] the dark, whispering like a lark on this cat [Cm]-a-bat balloon.
[Eb] Carry me, [Gm] carry me, far [D] away until another [Cm] day, until another [Eb] June.
I'll be floating in the [D] dark, _ whispering like [Db] a lark on this cat-a-bat [C] balloon.
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