Biography:
Balto is an American band.
Following an ill-fated six-month stint as a copy editor and telemarketer in Moscow, Russia, guitarist and songwriter Dan Sheron lost his marbles and went to Siberia, where he wrote a cycle of songs describing the life he’d decided to leave behind. That winter (2010), Balto laid those songs on its first record, October’s Road, in a single blustery day in a Brooklyn basement and went on to tour the United States & Canada for the first time.
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The other version has some chords a bit wrong from what I could tell, so I just fixed those
mistakes. Should work fine now.
Verse 1
C Fmaj7
I keep a letter in my drawer
C F
Postmark from several years before
C Dm
A headstone etched there on the page – a name a place a dying day
Am F
But god, I’m never sure
Verse 2
C Fmaj7
I guess three years ago last week
C Fmaj7
A ghost-girl drifted down to me
C Dm
And left the outline of a timid face then slipped away without a trace
Am F
Through space between the graves
Chorus 1
C Dm
And then I fell down on my knees
Am F
I placed a kiss on stony cheeks
C Dm
I feel that grit between my teeth
Am F
Why won’t she stay, love never stayed with me
(brief interlude resolves to C)
Verse 3
C Fmaj7
Something like eighteen months ago
C Fmaj7
I chased a rumor chased a hope
C Dm Am
That at St. Peter’s church the clock strikes twelve and ghost girls tend to show themselves but this one
F
Would not come
Chorus 2
C Dm
And then I fell down on my knees
Am F
I placed a kiss on stony cheeks
C Dm
I feel that grit between my teeth
Am F
Why won’t she stay, love never stayed with me
Verse 4
C Fmaj7
The years get longer counting days
C Fmaj7
I’ve got some private holidays
C Dm
But when I burned my words by candle-light I saw her standing there behind
Am F
“Go on,” she said, “I’ll wait.”
Chorus 3
C Dm
And then I fell down at her feet
Am F
I laid a kiss on bloodless cheeks
C F
Escaping steam between my teeth
Am F
Why won’t she stay, love never stayed with me
mistakes. Should work fine now.
Verse 1
C Fmaj7
I keep a letter in my drawer
C F
Postmark from several years before
C Dm
A headstone etched there on the page – a name a place a dying day
Am F
But god, I’m never sure
Verse 2
C Fmaj7
I guess three years ago last week
C Fmaj7
A ghost-girl drifted down to me
C Dm
And left the outline of a timid face then slipped away without a trace
Am F
Through space between the graves
Chorus 1
C Dm
And then I fell down on my knees
Am F
I placed a kiss on stony cheeks
C Dm
I feel that grit between my teeth
Am F
Why won’t she stay, love never stayed with me
(brief interlude resolves to C)
Verse 3
C Fmaj7
Something like eighteen months ago
C Fmaj7
I chased a rumor chased a hope
C Dm Am
That at St. Peter’s church the clock strikes twelve and ghost girls tend to show themselves but this one
F
Would not come
Chorus 2
C Dm
And then I fell down on my knees
Am F
I placed a kiss on stony cheeks
C Dm
I feel that grit between my teeth
Am F
Why won’t she stay, love never stayed with me
Verse 4
C Fmaj7
The years get longer counting days
C Fmaj7
I’ve got some private holidays
C Dm
But when I burned my words by candle-light I saw her standing there behind
Am F
“Go on,” she said, “I’ll wait.”
Chorus 3
C Dm
And then I fell down at her feet
Am F
I laid a kiss on bloodless cheeks
C F
Escaping steam between my teeth
Am F
Why won’t she stay, love never stayed with me
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