Pale Green Things

Intro: C, F, C, F

[Verse 1]
C
  Got up before dawn
F                           C    
  Went down to the racetrack
   F

C
   Riding with the windows down
F                                 
   Shortly after your first heart 
   C           F
attack.
Am                           C
   You parked behind the paddock,
Am                          C
   Cracking asphalt underfoot,
Am                           C
   Coming up through the cracks


[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things

C, F, C, F

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[Verse 2]
C
   You watched the horses run their 
workouts
F                                 
   You held your stopwatch in your
         C       F
 left hand
C
   And a Racing Form beneath your 
arm
F                                 
   Casting your gaze way out to no
        C              F
 man's land
Am                                
   Sometimes I'll meet you out 
  C
there
Am                 C
   Lonely and frightened
Am                                
   Flicking my tongue out at the 
    C
wet leaves


[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things


C, F, C, F, C, F, C, F, Am, 

C, Am, C, Am, C, G, C


[Verse 3]
C
   My sister called at 3 AM
F                    C       F
   Just last December
C
   She told me how you'd died at 
last, at last.
F                                 
   That morning at the racetrack 
          C                     F
was one thing that I remembered
Am                                
   I turned it over in my mind
  C

Am                                
   Like a living Chinese finger 
  C
trap
Am                                
   Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass
  C



[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things