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Black Balloon Guitar Tablature
NOTES: Play this with your guitar tuned down a step, into Eb, the other tabs for this song
dont do it, but if you listen to the CD then this will match that version. 

This is an excellent song by an excellent band. The other tabs of this song I tried to play
were good, but in the wrong key and used overly complicated fingering. The Bm chord in this
song was quite hard to play the way the other tabs told you to, this way is a lot easier!
Feel free to correct my mistakes, I'm new to actually writing tabs down, and my chord 
positions may be a little off, but the letters should be ok.

CHORDS USED:
 
D: xxx232
Gsus2: xxx233
Bm: xxx432
A: xx333x
Esus4: x222xx

Black Balloon:

D       Gsus2       D         Gsus2


D                              Gsus2
Baby's black balloon makes her fly

D                       Gsus2
   I almost fell into that hole in your life

D                             Gsus2
   And you're not thinking about tomorrow

      Bm           A         D
Cause you were the same as me

            Esus4        Gsus2
But on your knees

D                  Gsus2            D             Gsus2




  D                                           Gsus2
A thousand other boys could never reach you
   
D                               Gsus2
   How could I have been the one

D                              Gsus2
   I saw the world spin beneath you

      Bm            A             D
And scatter like ice from the spoon
   
                  A           Gsus2
That was your womb


CHORUS:
   
 Bm        A         Gsus2    D
Comin' down the world turned over

      Bm       A       Gsus2     D
And angels fall without you there

   Bm      A      Gsus2      D
And i go on as you get colder

   Gsus2         A          D               Gsus2          D              Gsus2
Or are you someone's prayer

VERSE 3:

D                                        Gsus2
   You know the lies that they always told you

D                            Gsus2
   And the love you never knew

D                                   Gsus2
   What's the things they never showed you

      Bm                A           D
That swallowed the light from the sun
   
             A           Gsus2
Inside your room yeah


CHORUS:
   
 Bm        A         Gsus2    D
Comin' down the world turned over

      Bm       A       Gsus2     D
And angels fall without you there

   Bm      A      Gsus2      D
And i go on as you get colder

   
 Gsus2     A          |D     Gsus2       Bm       A :|| <---Repeat twice and hold the A
Always someone’s lie                                    <---twice as long at the end.


 
D      Gsus2                   A
   And theres no time left for losin'
          
              A                  A
   When you stand they fall yeah


CHORUS:
CHORUS:
   
 Bm        A         Gsus2    D
Comin' down the world turned over

      Bm       A       Gsus2     D
And angels fall without you there

   Bm      A      Gsus2      D
And i go on as you get colder

Gsus2           A
All because I'm

CHORUS:
   
 Bm        A         Gsus2    D
Comin' down the years turned over

      Bm       A       Gsus2     D
And angels fall without you there

   Bm      A      Gsus2      D
And i go on I will lead you home

   
   
Gsus2          A
All because I'm

D
All because I'm

Esus4
I'll become
   
Gsus2                 D
What you became to me
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