Key: E major•
Intro 1
B
Verse 1
good gardener,
pale as a shadow of a doubt,
A
B
A
Once a happy dweller of a garden good,
B
A
once a sleepy sinner,
C#m
B
Once cast out
E
To the sea where the crossy- eyed maids murmur low,
"do you see, do you see
Where the doubts cross his shadow?"
I pollinate the coral and reek of the deep
E
C#m
B
E
sing to bring on Spring,
A
B
I know where your good grass grows,
A
C#m
I know what your boyfriend knows,
Verse 2
E
Esus4
I
A
E
saw twilight car
waxers, corpulent dog walkers,
Clean canny couples on
the sunset strip,
A
From a tower forty miles to the east of Augusta
saw a plague on the Indian
A'coming on a windship,
the wind swept up
And took the foul words from your mouth
really really means
It's the tearing with your teeth of the
C#m
flesh from the bones of your brother -
Verse 3
C#m
B
Did I hear you saying that the
C#m
B
A
Well form into matter, the matter is forever,
C#m
B
but only in a good garden
Interlude 1
B
C#m
B
E
Verse 4
where the seas of desolation roll,
And borne in again to the pebble-
feather shore of forgotten friends
without seeing first the self,
But then nobody thinks of
growing somebody else,
holds the withered withered world,
A
C#m
the beautiful girl?
Verse 5
C#m
B
E
A
Sing of the Summer sham,
C#m
B
O see them grow tall,
C#m
B
E
See them go to seed in the cemetery plot
A
B
E
I was your good gardener
Verse 6
C#m
B
E
Esus4
Sing to bring on Spring
A
B
E
O ice of Winter would crackle and splinter
C#m
A
B
E
with my love in everything
C#m
B
Ice of Winter would crackle and splinter
E
A
B
E
with my love in everything
C#m
B
I was your good gardener...
Verse 7
C#m
B
E
Esus4
E
A
B
E
The sea is stark and lovely,
C#m
B
E
and it scares me to the point of rapture
C#m
B
E
I was your good gardener,
C#m
B
E
of some good stature
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B
E
The sea is stark and lovely,
C#m
B
E
and it scares me to the point of rapture
C#m
B
I was your good gardener,
E
C#m
A
B
E
now I - can barely - look at ya
Outro 1
E
C#m
A
C#m
A
E
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E A C#m Esus4
B
E
A
C#m
Esus4
Capo: 2
Transpose: 0
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