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Green Grass

Album: Real Gone

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Song: Green Grass by Tom Waits

UKULELE CHORDS

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Intro: Cm Cm 
 
Verse 1:
                              Fm
Lay your head where my heart used to be
G                    Cm
Hold the earth G#ove 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
 
Bridge:
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:
   Fm
   G    Cm
   Ab   Ab
   G    Cm
 
 Outro:
                      Fm
Lay your head where my heart used to be
G               Cm
Hold the earth G#ove me
Ab
Lay down in the green grass
G                 Cm         Cm
Remember when you loved me
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Album: Real Gone

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  1. Day After Tomorrow
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Biography

Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.

He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit ‘n’ sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle

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