Green Like The G Train Green Like Sea Foam Acoustic chords by Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties

Standard tuning, Capo 2

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBA5Cmf2zIQ

For you G’s and Em’s, keep the E and B strings held down on the third fret.

Chords
D - xx0232
A - 002220
G - 320033
C - 032010
Em - 022000
Cadd9 - 032033
Asus - 002233

[Intro]

D,A,G x4 (the strumming for the first verse is pretty odd,
try not to strum anything before the D string)

D                A            G
He invited me in; said his name was Jesse, and to take a look around
            D     A      G
I found my coat at the bottom of the closet, dug it out. The only thing that she
D  A       G
left, there in the middle of the room, was the couch. She’d always hated the
D       A    G
pattern or the texture. I can’t remember it now.
(Normal strumming pattern again)
D        A      G    D       A    G
I relived those nights there breaking down. I guess I’ll see myself out.

up/down G deadstrum

G      D      A   G       D       A
You kept me waiting like the G Train. I held the door open for hours.

down/up/down G deadstrum

A       G      D       A   C   G  Em         A
I had to walk away. I rode the A line out to Rockaway. I’m always drawn to the water.
A           D    A      G
Walked the streets to the shore. Passed by the murals fading off of the walls
            D      A      G
Still licking the fresh wounds from a hurricane in the fall. And I watch them
D    A     G                   D
rebuild. I hummed a Ramone’s song out of key. Staring off at the skyline over
A       G      C     G     Em      C
shorebreak and remembering that this same ocean almost killed me. South
G     Em   A
Carolina, seafoam green.

G      D      A   G       D       A
You kept me waiting like the G Train. I held the door open for hours. I had to
down/up/down G deadstrum
A     G    D         A  C  G  Em      A
walk away. I took the A line out to Rockaway. I’m always drawn to the water.
A
I felt the weight.

*for this part, palm mute everything until the line “And I read that on a calendar long enough”

G       Em       Cadd9      Asus
On a calendar long enough all my grief starts to decay.
G       Em          Cadd9      Asus
On a calendar long enough it grows more useless by the day,
   G            Em      Cadd9
and I read that on a calendar long enough, New York will be returned to the
Asus G         Em      Cadd9      Asus
sea. When the water gets high enough, it’ll take back everything.
    G     Em      Cadd9       Asuslt A
So the subway and the G Train, our apartment, all our memories come to
G        Em     Cadd9              Asus
rest there under water, all the things that I thought meant the most to me.
     G        Em     Cadd9    Asus
I try to picture it– just the top of the skyline at low tide,
       G     Em      Cadd9    Asus
piercing the surface as the ships try to navigate their lanes,
     G(hold)  Em(hold)     Cadd9  Asus
and there alone and triumphant on the crest of a wave
    G(hold) A(hold) D
is the couch you gave away.

These are the tabs for the “And there alone and triumphant”
E|--3----–0-–|
B|--3----–3--|
G|--------–--|
D|--------–--|
A|–2----–2---|
E|3----–0----|