F                            Bb/F             F      Bb                     
     F           
Levon wears his war wound like a crown.  He calls his child Jesus  
C/E                           Dm               Am                      Bb   
               Gm7  
     cause he likes the name and he sends him to the finest school in  
town.  
  
Levon, Levon likes his money.  He makes a lot they say  
Spends his days counting in a garage by the motorway.  
  
Am                   Dm                           Bb                        
        F/A  
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day when the New York Times   
              Gm7            F                 Bb                 F/A       
       Gm7  
said God is dead and war's begun.  Alvin Tostig has a son today.  And he  
shall be  
Bb                                       F/A                          Bb  
Levon and he shall be a good man. And he shall be Levon. in tradition with  
the   
F/A                                   Bb                                    
       F/A    Bb  
family plan and he shall be Levon.   And he shall be a good man.  He shall  
be  
C7sus      C7     F    Bb/F    F    Bb/F  
Levon.  
  
  
Levon sells cartoon ballons in town.  His fam'ly bus'ness thrives. 
Jesus blows up balloons all day.  Sits on the porch swing watching them 
fly. And 
Jesus, he wants to go to Venus.  Leave Levon far behind.  Take a balloon 
and go sailing, while Levon, Levon slowly dies...