Chris Carrabba

Tall Green Grass

Chris Carrabba


Tom: G

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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there's a whole mess of trouble up on Choctaw Hill
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you're sister couldn't make it but i bet you will
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knockin' back a jelly jar of watermelon wine, i aint never seen a place where the sun can't- shine   
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wash off all that make up with a garden hose
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watch the freckles sparkle down the ridge of your nose
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[Pre-chorus]

with your lemon yellow ribbons and your bleach blonde hair
blendin' in the sun 'till you're barely there
blendin' in the sun 'till you're barely there
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[Chorus]
  :           C         G    C       G        C               G       D          G :
and we'll be off the radar, off the map    -    stretched out in the tall green grass
            only green,   against the blue    its only       me,     against you
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 : C         G    C             G        C      G           D          G :
a man that said "dreams don't last"      never slept in the tall green grass
and a man that said "coo-coo-cachoo" did some time in the tall green grass with you
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Repeat Intro after Chorus

[Verse II]

warm molasses midnight on a mississippi star
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got a candy apple a** on the hood of my car
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                                                      *(mute strings right after "can't-")
never could've told me you'd've gone this far - i can't even tell you where the f**k we are
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[Chorus]
  :           C         G    C       G        C               G       D          G :
we must be off the radar, off the map    -    stretched out in the tall green grass
            only green,   against the blue    its only       me,     against you
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 : C         G    C             G        C      G           D          G :
a man that said "dreams don't last"      never slept in the tall green grass
a man that said "coo-coo-cachoo" did some time in the tall green grass with you
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[Bridge]
         C                G                D   G    C
      now leave your reservations in the cold red clay
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            G     D     C                G    D    C
      we got tall green grass... for the whole damn day...
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[Chorus]
  :           C         G    C       G        C               G       D          G :
we must be off the radar, off the map    -    stretched out in the tall green grass
            only green,   against the blue    its only       me,     against you
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 : C         G    C             G        C      G           D          G :
a man that said "dreams don't last"      never slept in the tall green grass
a man that said "oooo~" did some time in the tall green grass
                                did some time in the tall green grass
                                did some time in the tall green grass... with you

[Outro]
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