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Green Grass by Tom Waits - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            The chords are generally played with a bass line playing the tonic note and
the note a fourth down on 1 and 3.  The Fm chord is started by sliding up to
the 8th fret on the A string.  Enjoy.


[Intro]
Cm Cm


[Verse 1]
                              Fm
Lay your head where my heart used to be
G                    Cm
Hold the earth above me
Ab
Lay down in the green grass
G                 Cm
Remember when you loved me

             Fm
Come closer don't be shy
G                     Cm
Stand beneath a rainy sky
Ab
The moon is over the rise
G                Cm
Think of me as a train goes by

             Fm
Clear the thistles and brambles
G                Cm
Whistle 'Didn't He Ramble'
Ab
Now there's a bubble of me
G             Cm
And it's flowing in thee


[Middle Section]
Fm           Bb
Stand in the shade of me
Eb
Things are now made of me
Ab
The weather vane will say...
G
It smells like rain today


[Verse 2]
                          Fm
God took the stars and he tossed 'em
G                             Cm
Can't tell the birds from the blossoms
Ab
You'll never be free of me
G            Cm
He'll make a tree from me

              Fm
Don't say goodbye to me
G            Cm
Describe the sky to me
Ab                    G
And if the sky falls, mark my words
Cm
We'll catch mocking birds


[Interlude] (With Whistling)
Fm
G    Cm
Ab   Ab
G    Cm


[Verse/Outro]
                      Fm
Lay your head where my heart used to be
G               Cm
Hold the earth above me
Ab
Lay down in the green grass
G                 Cm         Cm
Remember when you loved me

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