Chords for Blue Balloon (The Hourglass Song) - Sam Hui

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_ _ I have a blue balloon, [Eb] _ _ a happy tune, [Db] _ _ love enough [Fm] to last me all through the afternoon.
_ I have the New York Times, [Eb] _ _ _
fourteen [Db] dimes, an explanation [C] of the most profound _ nursery [F] _ rhymes.
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Before _ [Bbm] the rivers _ _ run [Eb] _
dry, _ before [Ab] the _ _ last [Bbm] sad goodbye,
_ _ let's be [Fm] kind to [Bbm] one another, _ _ we can _ try.
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _
So [F] _ _ _ _
_ don't [Bbm] just throw your love _ [Eb] about, it's not too [Ab] _ late _ to [Bbm] find out.
_ Before [Fm] the sand has all [C] un _ -melted [Fm] off the _ _ hourglass.
The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ carnival is here, [Eb] _ _ the clowns appear, [Db] _ _ plastic painted [Ab] people [C] _ hold each other [Fm] near.
_ Hopes are always high, [Eb] the echo of the sky, [Fm] _ and when it's over there's just [C] the lonely sound _ of [F] goodbye. _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
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_ _ Too late to hide [Ab] it now, [Eb] _ it's all around [Bb] us now, [Fm] oh how I want you girl, [C] to lie beside me now.
[Fm] _ While there still is time, [Eb] _ and all my poems still [Db] rhyme, let me love you now, _ [C] we can drink a good, good [F] wine. _
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Before _ [Bbm] the rivers _ _ _ run _ [Eb] dry, _ before the [Ab] _ _
_ last [Bbm] sad goodbye, _
_ let us [Fm] be kind to [Bbm] one another, _ _ we can _ [G] try.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
So _ [F] _ _ _
don't [Bbm] just throw your love _ [Eb] about, _ you and [Ab] me, hey let's [Bbm] find out.
_ Before [Fm] the sand has all [C] run _ out, _ [Em] off the _
_ [F] hourglass. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
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