Tom Waits - Green Grass Chords & Tabs

Intro:

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|-3-----------------------------------------3-------------|
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|-6-6h8-6-4-3-4---4-3---4---|
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(Play muffled and second strum is very subtle)
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|---5------5------5------5------5------5------1------1------0------0---|
|---5------5------5------5------5------5------3------3------0------0---|
|-3------------3-------------3-------------3------3--------------------|
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			          		Lay your...etc

Verse:

  			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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  		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 floating in thee

  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

 			     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 good bye 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):

G Cm


Last Verse:

  			 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