Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
good gardener,
pale as a shadow of a doubt,
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Once a happy dweller of a garden good,
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once a sleepy sinner,
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Once cast out
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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
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sing to bring on Spring,
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I know where your good grass grows,
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I know what your boyfriend knows,
Verse 2
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I
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saw twilight car
waxers, corpulent dog walkers,
Clean canny couples on
the sunset strip,
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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
Verse 3
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Did I hear you saying that the
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Well form into matter, the matter is forever,
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but only in a good garden
Interlude 1
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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,
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the beautiful girl?
Verse 5
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Sing of the Summer sham,
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O see them grow tall,
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See them go to seed in the cemetery plot
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I was your good gardener
Verse 6
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Sing to bring on Spring
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O ice of Winter would crackle and splinter
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with my love in everything
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Ice of Winter would crackle and splinter
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with my love in everything
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I was your good gardener...
Verse 7
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The sea is stark and lovely,
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and it scares me to the point of rapture
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I was your good gardener,
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of some good stature
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The sea is stark and lovely,
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and it scares me to the point of rapture
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I was your good gardener,
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now I - can barely - look at ya
Outro 1
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