The Balladeer Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]The balladeer waits in the wings
[Em]Tugging on her dress, tuning her strings
All [Am]her whiskey faded
cigarette blown dreams
She brings her[G]self to her own knees
with [D]every line so delicate

[Verse 2]
She [G]sings every song that she knows
The [Em]way that she hears
em sad and slow
They're never gon[Am]na
play her on the radio
So she [G]hangs in the darkest bars with
[D]downtrodden bleeding hearts

[Verse 3]
A gui[G]tar man there
who knew all the chords
Said [Bm]he needed her to help
him find the words
[Am]The balladeer never loved anybody more
It was ma[G]gic but she worried
what [D]if she ran out of the pain

[Verse 4]
She [G]carried round with her so proud
She [Bm]wore it like a queen wears a crown
She didn't [Am]know who she'd
be if she put it down
So [G]he brought her to the river where
[D]she could wash the trouble
[Bm]From her

[Verse 5]
[Dm]heart and let it shine like gold
[Bb]Felt like [Gm]angels pouring [Bb]mer
cy on her soul
[Am]And the weight of the world,
she let it go
And she [G]sang for the first time [Em]with
[D]her head held high and so much pride

[Verse 6]
It [G]opened up new notes in her throat
There [Em]was joy in every
new song she wrote
They got [Am]a bus and traveled
coast to coast
Drinking [G]with their friends and strangers
and [D]business people called to say

[Verse 7]
[G]That she was finally headed for the stars
Or [Em]at least the top of the charts
[Am]They changed her clothes
and bought fancy cars
Till the gui[G]tar man caught the eye of a
[D]pretty background singer with the [G]blues

[Verse 8]
[Em]Oh, [Am]oh, o[G]h[D]
[G]Oh, [Em]oh, oh
[Am][G]

[Verse 9]
[D]
The gui[G]tar man cried cause
he done her wrong
The [Em]background singer took
the next flight home
And [Am]the balladeer wrote
herself a song
About [G]brokenhearted dreamers who are [D]search

[Outro 1]
ing for something they'll never find
[G][Em]
[Am][G]