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The Good Gardener (On How He Fell)
Written by Glenn Richards
JB's boobtube
guitar tab by Tim Byron
The Good Gardener, track eleven on Augie March's debut album "Sunset Studies,"
is in 4/4 and uses the EADABE tuning, similar to their songs "Rich Girl" and
"The Moth Ball." I've transcribed it as tablature mostly, because the finger-
picking is quite complex. Due to Glenn's habit of writing verbose lyrics, the
lyrics don't quite match up to the chords. Hopefully you'll be able to work it
out despite that.
intro:
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v1:Here sits a once good gardener, pale as a shadow of a doubt
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v1:Once a happy dweller of a garden good, once a sleepy sinner, once cast out
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v1: sea where the crossy-eyed maids murmur low, "do you see, do you see
where the doubts cross his shadow?"
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v1: Drowned and amoral, I pollinate the coral and reek of the deep
where I've tended the water weed -
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I was your good gardener, sing to bring on Spring, I know where your
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good grass grows, I know what your boyfriend knows, I was your good gardener
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v2: I saw
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v2:twilight car waxers, corpulent dog walkers, clean canny couples on the sunset
strip/ From a
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v2:tower forty miles to teh east of Augusta saw a plague on the Indian
coming on a windship
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v2: You were in the garden when the wind swept up and took the foul
words from your mouth
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v2: Now u no wot ur sarcasm really really means, it's the tearing
with your teeth of the flesh from the bones of your -
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v2: Brother, kill a shrub to fertilise a flower, did I hear you say that
the form doesn't matter
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v3:Form into matter & matter is forever, but only in your good garden.
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[this section is just chords, so I won't transcribe the fingerpicking here]
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Black rock bound in the Brighton bowl where the seas of desolation roll,
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Where you're borne and borne and borne in again
To the pebble|-feather shore of forgotten friends
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Think how you can't see the science without seeing first the self,
But then nobody thinks of growing somebody else,
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And how the sun, hungry sun, holds the withered withered world,
So why shouldn't I kiss the beautiful girl?
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When 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 cemetary plot
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I was your good gardener, sing to bring on Spring,
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O ice of Winter would crackle and splinter with my love in everything
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Ice of Winter would crackle and splinter with my love in everything
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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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at ya.
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