Tom: C
Introdução: C G E F C
C G
Can't you hear your mama talking
E F C
She told you to hush your idling tongue
C G
Sit down in your chair boy,
E F C
Eat your supper, leave your brother alone
E F D7 G
-- I was once, -- just like you
E Am G C
--I was green and Blue
C G
Well my mother told my father one day
E F C
How much she had loved her life with him
C G
Then she rose up from her body and she
E F C
vanished in the blue and green spring.
E F D7 G
--She was once, -- Just like me
E Am Em F G C
-- Now shes gone into the blue and green.
E F D7 G
-- Blue and green,-- Blue and green,
E Am Em F G C
-- You aint lived till you've seen the blue and green.
C G
Well you shouldve seen my grandmother
E F C
She was tough and strong as any man
C G
She was sweet and gentle when she
E F C
held you like the lover she used to have.
E F D7 G
--But he was gone,-- Now so it seems
E AmEm F G C
-- But they live on in the blue and green
E F D7 G
-- Blue and green,-- Blue and green,
E Am Em F G C
-- You aint lived till you've seen the blue and green.
(Strum)
E F D7 G
-- Blue and green,-- Blue and green,
E Am Em F G C
-- You aint lived till you've seen the blue and green.
C G
Well keep on growing up so fast
E F C
Life will hit you hard as you can take
C G
Well tell me all your troubles boy and
E F C
I will try and take those troubles away.
E F D7 G
-- Cos you were once,-- Just like me
E Am Em F G C
-- We are coming from the blue and green
2x
E F D7 G
-- Blue and green,-- Blue and green,
E Am Em F G C
-- You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
E Am Em F
--You aint lived till youve seen.....
(Finger Picking)
C G
Cant you hear your mama talking
E F C
She told you to hush your idling tongue.