Pale Green Things

Intro: C, F, C, F

[Verse 1]
C
  Got up before dawn
F                           C       F
  Went down to the racetrack
C
   Riding with the windows down
F                                    C           F
   Shortly after your first heart 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

[Verse 2]
C
   You watched the horses run their workouts
F                                          C       F
   You held your stopwatch in your left hand
C
   And a Racing Form beneath your arm
F                                         C              F
   Casting your gaze way out to no man's land
Am                                  C
   Sometimes I'll meet you out there
Am                 C
   Lonely and frightened
Am                                    C
   Flicking my tongue out at the 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                                           C                     F
   That morning at the racetrack was one thing that I remembered
Am                                  C
   I turned it over in my mind
Am                                  C
   Like a living Chinese finger trap
Am                                  C
   Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass


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