Green
Written by Gerry Beckley, ©2015

Note:  to feel the real sound of this song you have to play a couple of little
patterns as well as normal chords. Let's call them P1 and P2 in notation: they
are nothing but parts of Intro.

Dmaj7   C#m        E4      E       F#m       B          A              
------  ------     ------  ------  ------    ------     ------   
||||||  ******4fr  ||||||  |||*||  ******2fr ******2fr  ||||||  
|||***  ||||*|     |***||  |**|||  ||**||    ||||||     ||***|  
||||||  ||**||     ||||||  ||||||  ||||||    ||***|     ||||||  

P1
D --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4
A --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4
E 0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2

P2
D --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2
A --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2
E 0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2

Intro:
D --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4
A --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4
E 0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2

D --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2
A --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2
E 0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2

D --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2
A --4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2
E 0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2

Dmaj7             C#m
Fame, it doesn't matter
Dmaj7             C#m
After all we've seen
Dmaj7      E4       E     P1
How is it, we could be so green?

     Dmaj7              C#m
The truth is where you find it
           Dmaj7             C#m
There's so much that's in-between
Dmaj7      E4       E     P2 
How is it, we could be so green?
     P2
So green

Dmaj7            C#m
Try to think of nothing (to think of nothing)
Dmaj7            C#m
Hardest thing I know (it's all so hard)
Dmaj7           E4        E       P1  
Try to think of Christmas without snow

Dmaj7            C#m
Blame is in the garden (it's in the garden)
         Dmaj7            C#m       
Will you let me rake your sand (I don't know if)
Dmaj7            E4     E      P2                
Do you think the others understand?
       P2
Understand

C#m        F#m   Dmaj7                 E4     E
Time will tell whether it's heaven or living hell
           C#m                    F#m
There's a world outside that you can't deny
      Dmaj7
It's waiting there for you
        B 
Nothing left for you to do
          A     E
You gotta try

(instrumental) Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  E4  E  P1

              Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  E4  E  P1
Come on and try
           
            Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  C#m  Dmaj7  E4  E  P2
You gotta try
     P2
So green
     P2
So green
  P2
Green


Last Revised: 24 June 2016