C                    G
Cant you hear your mama talking
E               F                C
She told you to hush your idling tongue
C                G
Sit down in your chair boy
E                F                  C
Eat your supper, leave your brother alone
E      F   D7      G
I was once, Just like you
E4    Am    G   C
I was green and blue.

Well my mother told my father one day
How much she had loved her life with him
Then she rose up from her body
And she vanished in the blue and green spring.
E       F     D7        G
She was once, Just like me
E4        Am            F    G    C
Now shes gone into the blue and green.

E        F
Blue and green,
D7       G
Blue and green,
E4       Am                F      G          C
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.

Well you shouldve seen my grandmother
She was strong and tough as any man
She was sweet and gentle,
When she held you like the lover she used to have.
E          F    D7         G
But he was gone, Now so it seems
E4        Am            F    G    C
But they live on in the blue and green

Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.

Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.

Well keep on growing up so fast
Life will hit you hard as you can take
Well tell me all your troubles boy
And I will try and take those troubles away.
E            F    D7         G
Cos you were once, Just like me
E4        Am            F    G    C
We are coming from the blue and green

Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.

Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.

Blue and green,
Blue and green,
E4       Am                F
You aint lived till youve seen

C                    G
Cant you hear your mama talking
E               F                C
She told you to hush your idling tongue.