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Green Isn't Yellow by The All-American Rejects

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Intro:

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Verse:
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Barefoot in the pastures of my childhood homestead
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 Rocks through yonder broken windows
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Screaming lullabies for little guys in bunk beds
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  And the cottonwoods in summer are falling like snow
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Many moons ago
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Dirt roads and a six-pack
Sleeping on the floorboards
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 Daddy always liked to drive
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      Hope he's coming home tonight

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School bus kicking dust out on some rural route to Nowhere, USA
Twelve-year old me in the back bench
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Just learning how to pray  
I once heard someone say
Chorus:
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"Green isn't yellow
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So, go ahead or run away
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Sometimes, just a little blue will get you brave."

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Four dollars in quarters from some laundry lottery
a pack of Bubblicious and a Playboy magazine
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 July 1996, Jenny McCarthy

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a rope swing and a spillway swimming hole at Blackwell Lake
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Iced tea in some dusty whisky bottle looks the same
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a harvest moon and flowers bloom and Lindy was her name
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And a cap and gown, then I left town, I'll always mark the day
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     I heard my old man say

Chorus:
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 "Green isn't yellow
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So, go ahead or run away
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Sometimes, just a little blue will get you brave."

Outro:
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Get you brave
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Green isn't yellow