GREEN MURDER
As recorded by Bendigo Fletcher
(From the 2018 Album CONSENSUAL WISDOM)



Capo 6th fret.
If you don't want to use a capo transpose +6 steps.



[Intro]
Am  E  Am  E
D  A  E


[Verse 1]
Am                      E
Carlo's watering the garden
         A                       E
Warbling through the morning rounds
     D                     A                          E
Spellbinding fruits of the juniper and window-looking ladygowns
Am                    E
Did he steal your future?
    A                   E
Was she dressed in white?
            Dmaj7           A                 E             D  A G E
Did he show her colors and fields she'd never seen in life?


[Verse 2]
A                                                        E
Well, if he's an evergreen then you're a sensitive fern, my boy
                            A                                   E
The family business slacks, put the pressure into your blue jeans
B               A                          E
Living from within can be a little harder, harder, harder than it seems
                 A                    E       Am             E
Oh, but did that Appalachian mountain do, really do the trick?
         D                     A                                          E
And send you dragging the tattered ends of your wits down into the willow-thick?


[Interlude]
D  A C E  A  E
A  E


[Bridge]
                     Dbm      E                  A     E
Oh, when you stepped onto the interstate, it was raining
        Dbm                E                        A  E
And you thought of all the lives that it surely had taken
        Dbm              A        E
All the lights trickling down the line
                                           A       E
But to risk it everyday for love, you'd be truly obliged
           Dbm               E
But you're just taking a ride


[Interlude]
Am  E  Am  E
Bm  A  E


[Verse 3]
E        Am                              E    A
You love that woman, don't you now, fern-boy?
                E
She haunts your head
             Bm                A                     E
With her longsleeves and ivory knees shifting around the gardener's bed
E
Did that Carlo rabbit nibble out your soul?
                     Am           E
On the belvedere his chivalry knelt
D                A                 E
Sliding both his hands beneath the garden belt


[Interlude]
D  A C E  A  E
A  E


[Outro]
               Dbm        E        A              E
Carlo found himself alone with the gardener's spade
    Dbm         E               A  E
Planted between the rose of his ribcage
    Dbm                E
All the life trickling down the vine
  C            E                          A       E
A tool between trades, a green murder was sure to align
                A                 E
And you thought soon, she'd be mine
                    A           E
Everything would be truly divine
E
Again