Blue Balloon
Em/          Em/
Em/                                 Em/                             
I had a blue balloon       a happy tune.
      C/                                          B7/                                         
 Love enough to last me        all thru the afternoon.
    Em/                                            Em/                                  
 I have the New York Time    and fourteen dimes.
           C/                                      B7/                             E/                    
   And explanation of the   most profound    nursery rhymes.

      *E/                 Am/             D/                     G/            Am/                   
Before the rivers run dry.    Before the last said goodbye.
                                           Em/                   Am/           B7/        B7/                    
Let us be kind to one another we can try.  
 E/                                 Am/                   D/              
 So don't just throw your love about.
                                    G/                Am/                     Em/                  B7/               Em/     Em/            
  It's not  too late to find out.   Before the sand has all run out of the hourglass.

Em/                       D/                      
The carnival is here       the crown appears
        F/                                       B7/                                            
Plastic painted people      hold each other near
            Em/                                     D/                                        Em/  
Hopes are always high       The echo of the sky
                    C/                           B7/                                                         E/                 
and when it's over    There just a lonely sight of good-bye

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         Em/                                  Em/                                           
 too late to hide it now     it's all around as now.
                  C/                                   B7/                                                 
Oh how I want you girl        to lie beside me now.
     Em/                                         Em/                                                  
While there still is time     and all my poems still rhymes
                C/                                                    B7/                                  E/              
Let me love you now    We can drink the good good wine. *