‘Green Grasses’ is on “Trio Years”, Homecoming
Records, 1986,
re-released as CD by NEC, 1988 under the title “New Frontier” with seven
additional songs
from “Secret Tapes ´86” (originally a Homecoming
Records cassette) and by Folk Era, 1993 under the title “Chilly Winds”
with seven songs from “Revenge of the Budgie”, 1983.
The song was also played and sung by the Kingston Trio, 1959 single, says a
Google search.
Very sweet melody, sounds good when you sing it alone,
better with a few more voices
I´ve written out some of the chords John plays in the
instrumental passages – an easier way to play the song would be playing the ‘verse-chords’
as intro, repeat ‘fourth–line-chords’ as interlude where
appropriate etc.
(G) (D)
(G) (D5)(D5)(D4)(D)(D4)(D5)
(G[C
formation 7th fret], quick A-note on high E-string)(G) (D5)(D5)(D4)(D)
(D)(D4)(D5)(G)(D)(A7)(G)(D)(A7)(D)
Oh (G)way
out on a (D)lonely bayou,
(G)There
waits a girl where the (D)green grasses grow.
(G)Waits
she there with a (D)tear in her eye,
Dreaming of
(G)years that (A7)long have gone (D)by.
(D)(D4)(D5)(G)(D)(A7)(G)(D)(A7)(D)
(G)How I
yearn for the (D)days that are gone
When I'd
(G)wake in the morning to a (D)whippoorwill song.
(G)There by
the fire sits (D)my lady fair,
Singing
this (G)song as she (A7)combs her long (D)hair.
She’d sing
(G)way out on a (D)lonely bayou
(G)There
waits a girl where the (D)green grasses grow,
(G)Waits
she there with a (D)tear in her eye,
Dreaming of
(G)years that (A7)long have gone (D)by.
(D)(D5)(G[C
formation 7th fret], quick A-note on high E-string)(G)(D)(G)(D)(A7)(D)
(G) (D5)(D5)(D4)(D)
(G)(G)(A-note
on high E)(G[C formation 7th fret], quick A-note on high E-string)(G)
(D5)(G)(D)(A7)(D)
(G) )(G[C
formation 7th fret,3x]) (D5)(D5)(D4)(D)
(D)(D4)(D5)(G)(D)(A7)(G)(D)(A7)(D)
(G)Now I'm
thinkin' (D)home I must go,
'Cause
(G)I've been out here where the (D)four winds blow,
(G)Leavin’
tonight with the (D)big April moon,
She'll be
at my (G)side by the(A7) third day of (D)June.
(G)Way out
on a (D)lonely bayou,
(G)There
waits a girl where the (D)green grasses grow,
(G)Waits
she there with a (D)tear in her eye,
Dreaming of
(G)years that (A7)long have gone (D)by.
Oh (G)way
out on a (D)lonely bayou,
(G)There
waits a girl where the (D)green grasses grow,
(G)Waits
she there with a (D)tear in her eye,
Dreaming of
(G)years that (A7)long have gone (D)by.
Dreaming of
(G)years that (A7)long have gone (D)by.
(D)(D4)(D5)(G)(D)(A7)(G)(D)(A7)(D)
© John
Stewart, All Rights Reserved
Art Faller, janhauenstein@gmx.de & Charlie Woodward
August 2004