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Green Grass Tab

by Tom Waits


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:
 



Verse:

                               
Lay your head where my heart used to be

		       
Hold the earth above me


Lay down in the green grass

		   
Remember when you loved me



	     	
Come closer don't be shy

     		      	
Stand beneath a rainy sky

   
The moon is over the rise

   		 
Think of me as a train goes by



	     
Clear the thistles and brambles

	         
Whistle 'Didn't He Ramble'


Now there's a bubble of me

              
And it's floating in thee





Middle Section:


	     
Stand in the shade of me


Things are now made of me


The weather vane will say...


It smells like rain today





Verse

			  
God took the stars and he tossed 'em

			      
Can't tell the birds from the blossoms


You'll never be free of me

   	     
He'll make a tree from me



	       
Don't say good bye to me

  	     
Describe the sky to me

 		      
And if the sky falls, mark my words


We'll catch mocking birds




Interlude (With Whistling):
  
    
   
    




Last Verse:


		      
Lay your head where my heart used to be

         	
Hold the earth above me


Lay down in the green grass

	            	      
Remember when you loved me