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Georgia Lee Tab

by Tom Waits


Title: Georgia lee
Artist: Tom Waits
Album: Mule Variations

This is such beautiful and moving song! This is so we guitarists can put our side to it! 
very simple so good news there! Great album too!

Capo on the 1st fret

Intro:     

                             
Cold was the night, hard was the ground
                                     
They found her in a small grove of trees
                                     
Lonesome was the place where Georgia was found
                     
She's too young to be out
       
On the street.
                        
Why wasn't God watching?
                         
Why wasn't God listening?
             
Why wasn't God there for
      
Georgia Lee?
                         
Ida said she couldn't keep Georgia
                    
From dropping out of school
                               
I was doing the best that I could
                                    
But she just kept runnin away from this world
                                  
These children are so hard to raise good
                        
Why wasn't God watching?
                         
Why wasn't God listening?
             
Why wasn't God there for
      
Georgia Lee?
                          
Close your eyes and count to ten
                    
I will go and hide but then
                              
Be sure to find me. I want you to find me
                  
And we'll play all over
                
We will play all over
                              
We will play all over again
                    
There's a toad in the witch grass
                     
There's a crow in the corn
                                 
Wild flowers on a cross by the road
                     
And somewhere a baby is crying
        
For her mom
                      
As the hills turn from green back
   
To gold
                        
Why wasn't God watching?
                         
Why wasn't God listening?
             
Why wasn't God there for
      
Georgia Lee?
                        
Why wasn't God watching?
                         
Why wasn't God listening?
             
Why wasn't God there for
      
Georgia Lee?

      

And there it is! Enjoy! Long live Tom waits!