The Mountain Goats – Pale Green Things (Ukulele)

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  Got up before dawn

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  Went down to the racetrack

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   Riding with the windows down

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   Shortly after your first heart attack.

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   You parked behind the paddock,

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   Cracking asphalt underfoot,

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   Coming up through the cracks

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Pale green things, pale green things

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   You watched the horses run their workouts

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   You held your stopwatch in your left hand

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   And a Racing Form beneath your arm

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   Casting your gaze way out to no man's land

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   Sometimes I'll meet you out there

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   Lonely and frightened

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   Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves

             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things

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   My sister called at 3 AM

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   Just last December

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   She told me how you'd died at last, at last.

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   That morning at the racetrack was one thing that I remembered                      

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   I turned it over in my mind

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   Like a living Chinese finger trap

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   Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass

             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things