the ballad of you & me & pooneil
after bathing at baxter's, 1967
music and lyrics: paul kantner
in d minor (roughly), but it also takes dips into c# minor as well into e minor. the chords could just definitely be played as fifths, but with open chords and even barred chords it just sounds much better as all majors.
lead guitar and bass solo in d dorian.
D F D C
If you were a bird and you lived very high,
D F D C
You'd lean on the wind when the breeze came by,
D F D C
You'd say to the wind as it took you away,
D F D C
"That's where I wanted to go today"
C#m B5
And I do I’m gonna need you ‘round
C#m B5
And I know that i'm gonna need you around
A G E A G B E
Love like a mountain springtime,
A G F# A G E
flashing through the rivers of my mind;
A G E A G B E A G F# A G E
it's what I feel for you.
Armadillo!
D F D C
You and me go walking south
D F D C
And we see… all the gold around us,
D F D C D F D C
The colors blind my eyes and my mind to all but you,
C#m B5
And I do I’m gonna need you ‘round
C#m B5
And I know that i'm gonna need you around
A G F# A G E
A G B
D F D C
I have a house where I can go
D F D C
When there's too many people around me;
D F D C
I can sit and watch all the people
D F D C
Down below goin' by me;
D F D C
Halfway down the stair is a stair
D F D C D F D C D F D C
Where I sit and think around you and me;
D F D C D F D C
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin' by.
D F D C D F D C
Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die,
D F D C D F D C
When I'm high, when I die
D F D C
If you were a cloud and you sailed up there,
D F D C
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
D F D C
You'd see me here in the fields and say,
D F D C D F D C D F D C
"Doesn't the sky look green today?"
D F D C D F D C
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin' by.
D F D C D F D C
Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die,
D F D C D F D C
When I'm high, when I'm high
D E F G A
Die, die, die, die, die!
