Verse 1

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Can?t you hear your momma talkin? She told you to hush your idling tongue
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Sit down in your chair, boy, Eat your supper, leave your brother alone
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I was once just like you, I was green and blue

Verse 2

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 of spring

She was once just like me, now she?s gone into the blue and green

Refrain

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Blue and green; blue and green
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You ain?t lived ?til you?ve seen blue and green

Verse 3

Well you should?a seen my grandmother, she was tough and strong as any man
Well she was sweet and gentle when she, held you like the lover she used to have

But he was gone now so is she, but they live in on in the blue and green

Refrain x2

Verse 4

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 to take those troubles away

Cause you were once just like me, we are coming from the blue and green

Refrain x2

Outro

Blue and green, Blue and green You ain?t lived ?til you?ve seen ?  Well can?t you hear 
your mama talking,  she told you to hush your idling tongue