Blue And Green

	  		Intro: C   G   E   F   C  

Verse:  
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  

Lead In:  

E            F       D7          G  
-- I was once, --  just like you  
E           Am    G    C  
--I was green and Blue  


Verse:  
             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.  

Lead In:  

E                F       D7         G  
--She was once, -- Just like me  
E                  Am   Em     F      G    C  
-- Now shes gone into the blue and green.  

Instrumental: C  G  E  F  C  

  
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.  
  

Verse:  
              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.  

Lead In:  

E                    F      D7              G  
--But he was gone,-- Now so it seems  
E                    Am Em  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.  
  

Verse:  
       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.  

Lead In:  

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.  

Tag:  

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.