Pale Green Things Chords by The Mountain Goats

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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] Got up [Am] before dawn, _ _ [D] _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ went [C] down to the _ racetrack, _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _
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riding with the windows down, [D] _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ shortly after
your [C] first heart attack.
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_ You parked behind [C] the paddock, _ _
_ [Am] _ _ cracking asphalt [C] underfoot, _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
coming up [C] through the _ cracks, [G] pale
green things, pale [C] green things. _
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You watched the horses [C] run their workouts, _
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you held your [C] stopwatch in your left hand, _
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[B] _ _ [C] _ _ and a racing form beneath your arm, _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ casting your [C] gaze way out to no man's _ land. _ _ _
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Sometimes I'll meet [C] you out there, _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [C] lonely and frightened, _ _
_ _ _ [A] flicking my tongue out [C] at
the wet leaves, [G] pale green things, _ [C] pale green things.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ My sister called at 3am, _ [G] _ [F] _
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just [Em] last [C] December, _ _ _ _
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_ she told me how you died at last, [D] at [F] last.
_ _ _ And that morning at the racetrack [C] was one thing I remembered, _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _
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_ [E] _ [Am] _ I turned it over [C] in my
mind, _ _ _ [Am] _ _ like a [C] living Chinese finger trap, _ _ [Am] _
seaweed and Indiana [C] _ _ sawgrass, [D] pale [G] green things, [C] pale green things.
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Pale green things, pale green things, pale green things.
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