Botanical gardens chords by Don McLean

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Dm
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Abdim
Bm
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Ab
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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
I leave the noise
and the dark city canyons
And walk through gates of
A 
wrought iron black
D 
Dm 
There lies a world that's
D 
Transformed before me
A 
D 
When I arrive will I ever go back

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Verse 2

I take a walk in botanical gardens

And look for the faces of

The pretty young girls

Just like the flowers that

Bloom all around me

I fall in love in this colorful world

Verse 3
G 
Abdim 
You might go walking and
Dm 
D 
thinking of nothing
G 
Abdim 
Perhaps your love life is
D 
caught in a bind
G 
Abdim 
There in a flowery dress
D 
in the sunlight
Bm 
Bb 
You'll find somebody who will
A 
Change your mind

Verse 4
D 
She's haunting me and she
losing my memory
Dm 
D 
A 
That beautiful face with perfume in the air
D 
She brushes my arm and smiles ever faintly
A 
D 
A famine and vision with the sun in her hair

Verse 5
G 
Abdim 
We might go walking hand in
Dm 
D 
Hand in the garden and
G 
cross the bridge when
Abdim 
D 
It's starting to rain
G 
Abdim 
E 
And then go laughing and looking  for shelter
D 
Bm 
Bb 
And find a feeling that
A 
you can't explain

Verse 6
D 
The colorful birds in botanical gardens
Dm 
D 
A 
All fly away to a breezy lagoon
Dm 
D 
Where lovers can swim in
The warm summer waters
A 
Surrounded by flowers and the
D 
Light of the moon

Interlude 1

Abdim

Verse 7
D 
Dm 
It's getting late and the
D 
Gates will be closing
A 
Shall I remain or go back to the world
D 
Shall I remain in botanical
gardens
A 
Surrounded by flowers and
D 
Those beautiful girls

Verse 8
D 
Shall I remain in botanical garden
A 
Surrounded by flowers and
D 
Those beautiful girls
A 
I love those flowers and
D 
Those beautiful girls
A 
I dig those flowers and those
D 
beautiful girls
Dm 
D 