Tom: Am
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Cant you hear your mama talking
E F C
She told you to hush your rattling tongue
C G
Sit down in your chair boy
E F C
Eat your supper, leave your brother alone
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I was once, Just like you
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I was green and blue.
C G
Well my mother told my father one day
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How much she had loved her life with him
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Then she rose up from her body
E F C
And she vanished in the blue and green spring.
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She was once, Just like me
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Now shes gone into the blue and green.
E F
Blue and green,
D7 G
Blue and green,
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You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
C G
Well you shouldve seen my grandmother
E F C
She was strong and tough as any man
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She was sweet and gentle,
E F C
When she held you like the lover she used to have.
E F D7 G
But he was gone, Now so it seems
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But they live on in the blue and green
D7 G
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
D7 G
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve 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
E F C
And I will try and take those troubles away.
E F D7 G
Cos you were once, Just like me
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We are coming from the blue and green
D7 G
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
D7 G
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
D7 G
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
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You aint lived till youve seen
C G
Cant you hear your mama talking
E F C
She told you to hush your rattling tongue.
