The Ballad Of Betty And Barney Hill
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: BbCapotraste: Sem capotraste
The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill by Angelo De Augustine
Album: Toil and Trouble
No Capo
Standard Tuning
[Intro]
Cm Bb F Fm
Cm Bb F Fm
[Verse 1]
Cm Bb
In another life
F Fm
In another place and time
Cm Bb F
I saw the light follow the hills in its disguise
Cm Bb
Then a blinding flash
F Fm
What did Betty have to say?
Cm Bb F
Barney, I've tried to remember but my mind has slipped away
Cm Bb F Fm
Cm Bb F Fm
[Verse 2]
Cm Bb F Ab
I'm a renegade who's been living in a dream
Cm Bb F
That set the cosmos alight like a flame on gasoline
Cm Bb F Ab
When we took them both I was anxious at the start
Cm Bb F
I could feel remorse if not for the poison in my heart
Cm Bb F Fm
Cm Bb F Fm
[Verse 3]
Cm Bb F Ab
When we both were young and longing to be free
Cm Bb F Ab
Traveling through the White Mountains to Zeta Reticuli
Cm Bb F Ab
Ridiculed and scorned on the television news
Cm Bb F Ab
Like the rubbles in bedrock visited by the Great Gazoo
[Verse 4]
C F D F
Don't make a sound just close your eyes
C F D F
A voice replied inside his mind
C F D F
It wanted me but I ran for my life
Fm
I just want
F G
I just want to go home
Cm Bb F Fm
Cm Bb F Fm
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