Chords for The Late, Great Dave Van Ronk: "Green Green Rocky Road"

_ Now Green Rocky Road was a _ thing that _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ I picked up when [B] I was working in a club on McDougal
Street in the village _ _ called the Commons.
_ And that was the earliest period of the coffeehouse _ phase as a great American folk scare, around 1960.
_ _ _ _ And the headliners _ for the shows at that point were poets, beat poets. _ _ _
_ And I was working _ with _ _ a guy named Bob Kaufman, Robert Kaufman, _ one of the best [D] _ _ of the poets
of that period. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] And I was _ sitting with him _ and _ _ we had a performance table up near the stage. _ _
And as I like to say on stage, he _ whispered in my ear a song, _ _ he whispered in my ear a
phrase that's guaranteed to make any singer's blood run cold.
He said, boy, have I got a song for you. _
_ And he proceeded to sing this thing to me in my ear.
_ And _ _ [Bb] Bob was _ _ _ _ borderline tone deaf. _ _ _
I couldn't make head or tail of the melody that he was trying to get across to me.
_ But _ Len Chandler was there.
_ _ And Len Chandler, very, very well trained, highly trained _ _ musician, used to play in the
Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
_ _ And he deciphered _ the _ [B] melody _ _ _ _ _ from _ _ _ _ Bob's _ _ _ _
_ [E] mooing. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] And I mean, had it not been for Len, there's no way I would have been able to _ do that.
I couldn't reconstruct it.
Len also recorded it.
He recorded it for Columbia.
_ _ But _ _ _ it's become so embedded in my repertory now that [E] _ _ I suppose if _ I have a theme song, that's it. _ _ _
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He don't walk, no, he just fly.
He don't walk, no, he don't run.
Keep on flapping to the sun. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Green, [A] green, [E] rocky road, _ _ _ [A] promenade [E] in green.
_ _ _ _ Tell me who you love, [A] tell me [E] who you love. _ _ _
_ _ Little Miss Jane run to the wall.
Don't you stumble, don't you fall.
Don't you sit, don't you shout when I _ sing.
_ Come running out, howling green, [A] green, [E] rocky road, _ _ _ [A] _ [E] promenade in green.
_ _ _ _ _ Tell me who you love, [A] tell me [E] who you love. _ _
Yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] Whoa!
[E] Yeah.
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Yeah.
_ Ooga dooga soda cracker, _ does your mama [A] [E] chew tobacco?
If your mama chews tobacco, _ ooga dooga soda cracker. _ _ _
How _ _ [A] are you going [E] to argue with a position like that?
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_ When I go by the bottom, I need [A] no carpet [E] on the floor.
Come along, follow me.
There's a [A] man [E] _ in Galilee, _ howling green, [A] green, [E] rocky road, _
_ _ [A] promenade [E] in green. _ _
_ _ Tell me who you love, tell me who you love.
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