BADFINGER
CRIMSON SHIP
EVANS/HAM
D# A# Cm A#
My life was coloured, painting pictures out of tune
D# A# C
You came from nowhere in a song
D# A# Cm A#
It might have been the way I laughed, he made the jokes
D# A# C
Could only show me what was wrong
F A#
He took me flying on his crimson ship
C D# A#
He never left me his number
F A#
He took me flying on his crimson ship
C D# A# C
Then he was gone and I wondered
D# A# Cm A#
Who put the knots on all the crosses on the hill?
D# A# C
Why did the old man wash his hands?
D# A# Cm A#
Who grew the flower that was big enough to kill?
D# A# C
And blew the trumpet in the van, a-an
F A#
He took me flying on his crimson ship
C D# A#
He never left me his number
F A#
He took me flying on his crimson ship
C D# A# C
Then he was gone and I wondered
D# A# F C
Oh-oh, oh-oh
D# A# Cm A#
When they were busy throwing kisses at the moon
D# A# C
D# father lost his mother's son
D# A# Cm A#
And though they knew the resurrection would be soon
D# A# C
The time was spent, they carried on, o-on
F A#
He took me flying on his crimson ship
C D# A#
He never left me his number
F A#
He took me flying on his crimson ship
C D# A# C F
Then he was gone and I wondered
C
Wondered Wondered Wondered . . . . .