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Bridges And Balloons Tab

by Joanna Newsom


This is a very sweet, very easy little song. To play in the original key, put a 
capo on the 6th fret. 


  
   
We sailed away on a winter’s day

     
With fate as malleable as clay

    
But ships are fallible I say 

        
And the nautical like all things fades

       
And I can recall our caravel

  
A little wicker beetle shell

      
With four fine masts and lateen sails

    
Its bearings on Cair Paravel

                
Oh my love oh it was a funny little thing

               
To be the ones to’ve seen


The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And they caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living room
A loom of metal warp woof wimble
And a thimble’s worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble
Oh my love oh it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to’ve seen
Oh my love oh it was a funny little thing 
It was a funny funny little thing