Pale Green Things Chords

Pale Green Things
Tabbed by: rristuccia@yahoo.com
 
There’s something a little weird about the the C chords.  I think John adds a high G
(on the first string), but I’m not sure.
 
 
[Intro]
C  F  C  F
 
[Verse 1]
C
  Got up before dawn
F                           C    F
  Went down to the racetrack
C
   Riding with the windows down
F                                    C     F
   Shortly after your first heart attack
Am                           C
   You parked behind the paddock
Am                          C
   Cracking asphalt underfoot
Am                           C
   Coming up through the cracks
 
 
[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things
 
C  F  C  F
 
 
[Verse 2]
C
   You watched the horses run their workouts
F                                          C     F
   You held your stopwatch in your left hand
C
   And a Racing Form beneath your arm
F                                         C     F
   Casting your gaze way out to no man's land
Am                                  C
   Sometimes I'll meet you out there
Am                 C
   Lonely and frightened
Am                                    C
   Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves
 
 
[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things
 
 
C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  Am  C  Am  C  Am  C  G  C
 
 
[Verse 3]
C
   My sister called at 3 AM
F                    C    F
   Just last December
C
   She told me how you'd died at last, at last
F                                           C                     F
   That morning at the racetrack was one thing that I remembered
Am                                  C
   I turned it over in my mind
Am                                  C
   Like a living Chinese finger trap
Am                               C
   Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass
 
 
[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things
 
 
C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  Am  C  Am  C  Am  C  G  C
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