Chords for Ted Hawkins - Green Green Grass Of Home

_ _ _ _ You like that thing _
_ _ Let me know you [E] enjoy _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Yes, yes, [F#] yes
Anybody like singing better than I do have to eat it _
I'm crazy about singing
[A] _ _ [E] So one way [G#] I can feel better when I'm sad
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ _ [B] You _ _
Look the same
_ As I [E] step down from the [B] train
_ [E] _ [B] To meet me was my mama and [F#] my papa
_ _ _ _ Down
[B] _
_ And there
_ _ [E] _
_ _ Caracol it looks like cherry [B] is good
_ [F#] The green green
_ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] Oh
[E] Yes, [B] they all come to meet me
_ [E] _
Oh
_ _ _ _ [B] It's good to touch [F#] the green green glass [E] of
Home _ [B] _ _ _ _
house _ is still standing
_ [E] And the pain is [B] cracking dry
[E] Oh [B] that old tree that I used [F#] to play on
_ _ _ Down [B] the lane I walk with my sweet [E] mary
And _ lips like cherry [B] so good to touch [F#] the green green glass [E] of home
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] Yes, [B] they all
Come to meet _ [E] me
Oh
_ _ _ _ [B] It's good to touch [F#] the green green grass
[E] _
_ I've been to [F] uh penitentiaries and
[F#]
Jails and things.
Let me see when I went to uh
school for little bad boys at 12 years of age
I learned how to take care of myself there when I got out of there.
[F] I um
Was about 15 years of age and I [F#] broke in a place
Uh a harlem davis motorcycle shop.
I went to a place called parchment penitentiary
for 31 months and nine days
And that was hell
you saw
[G#m] Cool hand luke is worse than cool hand [E] luke
_ That place was ran
by a [G#m] sadistic man who
[F#] Got his sexual gratifications from whooping black [E] asses _ _ _
What changed me is I found [F#] out that uh, if you break the law
This [N] year and it'll catch you in 25 years.
There are eyes that are looking that are trained
to find you
And when you [G#] decide to do right
Here they come
Putting you in jail for something you did 25 years ago
You know, so you lose _ _ _
[G#] I was moving from from place to place.
I was trying to survive living from hand to mouth
Uh in each city that I [C#m] get in get to I would look for a skid row _
and um
Me and the bums would get together.
So it's bitterly cold.
I'd
Take their bottle and drink out their bottle, you know to try to uh, warm me up
It would warm me up the only thing that kept me alive
You know, we they would take me to the flop house
[G#m] I know where flop house is man and it take me to the flop house and sit there and listen to a um,
a sermon
you know and
after that's over we
_ _ _ Have some soup
and stale donuts
_ Two or three days old
_ Some hard bread _
And wash it down with some coffee full _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] Drink