The Groundskeeper chords by David Keenan

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
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There’s a breeze and it’s blowing me down the road, rattling this bag of bone
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As I make my way through the storm,
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there’s a scrapyard prowler on my tail


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I flagged me down a driver, I says take me the long way home for I am the
passenger seat prophet you’ve been waiting for and
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I long to see the chicken wire again

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I awoke in the morning
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with a green throat and a sore head,
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like a jellyfish sprawled on your clean bed
C
And not knowing what to do,
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I just fell in love with you as
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the dog outside the door craved my attention

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♫ Chorus:
D                        A    Am
I think I’d like to meet The Groundskeeper
D               Am
but I don’t know
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I think I’ve lost him along the way.
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He’s been etherized
D               Am
he’s got William Burroughs’ eyes

I think he’s had his day lounging in the sun
D                   D
with his weed gun, thorns and nettles on the run

Am
The ragged brush he swept the pavement which he kept so
D       Am
clean, I’ve seen it in a dream


♫ Verse 2:



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Then sitting down
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Wiping off the sweat from his furrowed brow, with a rag of Irish tweed.

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Yeah yeah yeahhh

Am                  G   D
Yeah yeah yeahhh

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Take me back

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I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time

D
Take me back

Am                                      Am                    D
I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time

D   Am

♫ Chorus:

D                           Am            D
I think I’d like to meet The Groundskeeper (Yeah man if you're sure)
D                    Am
I think he’s brewing tea (Come with me, let’s see)
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Behind the willow door manuscripts lie bare fill them with words
that reassure like a language no one’s speaking anymore


♫ Verse 3:
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In the corner there’s a bookcase for his bed and a thin straw hat to rest upon his head,
D                                   Am
he says it brings him closer to the land so it wears it as a crown for the common man

D             Am
Yeah yeah yeahhhh
D              Am
Yeah yeah yeahhhh

♫ Chorus:

D
Take me back
Am                                      Am                    D
I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time
D
Take me back
Am                                      Am                    D Am
I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time

♫ Outro:
D                                       Am
I think I’d like to meet The Groundskeeper
D                                               Am
But I don't know, I think I lost him along the wayyyyyyyy

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