Blue And Green Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

CCan’t you hear your mommGa talkin’ She toEld you to hush yFour idling tonguCe

CSit down in your chair, Gboy, Eat your suEpper, leave yourF brother alone C

EI was onFce just D7/F♯like you,G I was Amgreen and blue

Verse 2

Well my mother told my father one day. How much she had loved her life with him

Then she rose up from her body. And she vanished in the blue and green of spring

She was once just like me, now she’s gone into the blue and green

Refrain

EBlue andF green; D7/F♯blue andG green

E/G♯You ain’t lAmived ‘til you’ve seenF blue and grGeen C

Verse 3

Well you should’a seen my grandmother, she was tough and strong as any man

Well she was sweet and gentle when she, held you like the lover she used to have

But he was gone now so is she, but they live in on in the blue and green

Refrain x2

Verse 4

Well keep on growing up so fast, life will hit you hard as you can take

Well tell me all your troubles boy and I will try to take those troubles away

Cause you were once just like me, we are coming from the blue and green

Refrain x2

Outro

Blue and green, Blue and green You ain’t lived ‘til you’ve seen

Well can’t you hear

your mama talking, she told you to hush your idling tongue