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Intro
FAdd2 MIbadd2 DO#add2 2X
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Verse 1:
FA FAmaj7 MIb
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
SOL# SOL#maj7 FA#/DO# FA#
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
SI MIbm SI7/MIb MI
We could float among the stars together, you and I
SI FA#/SI SI RE7
For we can fly we can fly
Chorus
SOL SOLmaj7
Up, up and away
DOmaj7 FA9
My beautiful, my beautiful
SOLadd2 FAdd2 MIbadd2 SOLadd2 FAdd2 MIbadd2
Balloon
Verse 2:
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly we can fly
[repeat chorus]
Bridge:
SIb REm/SIb DOm/SIb FA7/MIb
Suspended under a twilight canopy
SIb/RE REm/SIb DOm/SIb FA7/MIb
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us
DO# DO#maj7 FA#6
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
MI LAm/MI
We'll find a cloud to hide us
FAdd2 MIbadd2 DO#add2
We'll keep the moon beside us
Verse 3:
Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
[repeat chorus]
Coda:
SOLadd2 FAdd2 MIbadd2
Balloon...
SOLadd2 FAdd2 MIbadd2
Up, up, and away [repeat to fade]
N.B. there isn't a usable guitar fingering for those add2 chords - on
keyboard you'd voice them as 2nd/3rd/5th (e.g. Fadd2 => G/A/C) in the
right hand. Steely Dan would refer to this voicing years later as the
"mu-major" chord.
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