C                    G
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
E      F   D7      G
I was once, Just like you
E4    Am    G   C
I was green and blue.

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
E                F                  C
And she vanished in the blue and green spring.
E       F     D7        G
She was once, Just like me
E4        Am            F    G    C
Now shes gone into the blue and green.

E        F
Blue and green,
D7       G
Blue and green,
E4       Am                F      G          C
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
C                G
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
E4        Am            F    G    C
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
E4        Am            F    G    C
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,
E4       Am                F
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.