The Good Gardener (On How He Fell)
By Augie March
Tabbed by Jucko
Tuning: EABABe
Timing: 4/4
Intro
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Verse 1
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Here sits a once good gardener, pale as the shadow of a doubt
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Once a happy dweller of a garden good, once a happy sinner once cast out
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Verse 2
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Sea where the crossy-eyed maids murmur low, "do you see, do you see where the doubts cross his shadow?"
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Drowned and amoral, I pollinate the coral & reek of the deep where I've tended the water weed
Chorus
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I was you're your good gardener, sing to bring in the spring, I know where your
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Good grass grows, I what your boyfriend knows, I was your good gardener
Interlude (with trumpet solo)
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Saw the
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Twilight car waxers, corpulent dog walkers, clean canny couples on the sunset strip from a
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Tower forty miles to the east of Augusta saw plague on the Indian coming in the wind-ship
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You were in the garden when the wind swept up and took the foul words from your mouth now you
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What your sarcasm really really means, it's the tearing with your teeth of the flesh from your
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Brother kill the shrub to fertilise the flower,did I hear you say that the form doesn?t matter
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Form into matter and matter is forever but only in your good garden
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Verse 5
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Black rock bound in the Brighton bowl where the
Seas of desolation roll, where you're
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Borne and borne and borne in again to the
Pebble-feather shore of forgotten friends, think how you
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Can't see the science without seeing first the self, but then
Nobody thinks of growing somebody else, how the
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Sun, hungry sun, holds the withered withered world, so
Why shouldn't I kiss the beautiful girl?
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I was her good gardener sing of the Summer sham
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O see them grow tall, see them in their rot, see them go to seed in the cemetery plot
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O I was your good gardener sing to bring home the spring
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O ice of Winter would crackle and splinter with my, love in everything
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Yeah ice of winter would crackle and splinter with my, love in everything
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O I was your good gardener...
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The sea is stark and lovely, and it scares me to the point of rapture
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I was your good gardener, of some good stature
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The sea is stark and lovely, and it scares me to the point of rapture
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I was your good gardener, now I can barely look
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