This is a beautiful song. The chords are simple and the picking/strumming rhythm is easy
to pick up.
Capo: 3rd fret
C: X3201X
D: X0321X
G: 32000X
Intro: C D G C
CD
There's rumbling in the head again
GC
Inside the head there lived a brain
CD
Inside the brain there lived a dream
GC
That shot round like a laser beam
CD
Along nerve endings and synapses
GC
Past the room for memory lapses
CD
Bought about by alcohol
GC
That causes all the cell collapses
CDGCCD
Now, that dream's not the only one
GC
I had plenty more when I was young
CD
But I grew up in a big hurry
GC
And then one day I start to worry that
DGC
I'm gonna be a goner before I read all the books I wanna
CD
If I plant a tree now it'll be fully grown
GC
Long after I'm just dust and bone and
CDCG
Now I can't sleep, it's already 3 AM
CDGC
And Im lying here dividing sheep by the square root of ten
CDGCCD
So I gave away my clothes to charity
GC
I turned off my TV for clarity
CD
And somedays I still envy those
GC
Walking around wearing my clothes
GDC
So I'll just plant a tree I'll never see grow
GDC
Put a seed in the ground where no one'll know
GDC
Gonna make my plan when the morning breaks
GDC
But I just don't know how long it'll take
CDGCCD
I keep hearing voices and ringing phones
GC
But Im staring down a highway all alone
CD
With just the company of my stomach rumble
GC
And I feel OK, it makes me humble
CD
Without a load that I must carry
GC
Or a bump in the road to make to tarry
CDGC
Just a pile of ashes from the miles I've burned and everything Ive learned
C
What have I learned?
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CD
Don't walk in front of cars or behind horses
GC
Cats don't drink milk out of flying saucers
C
Green means go
D
Yellow: go faster
GC
Red means stop or financial disaster
CDGC
And don't ever underestimate the fitness of a determined Jehovahs witness
CDGC
And don't ever ever take for granted what grew from every kiss you planted
CD
If a heart can break then a heart can feel
GC
It's to know that you're alive and real
CD
Like the rattlin, bouncin little white ball
GC
Not a number on a roulette wheel
CDCG
And hair it turns grey and skin it turns to leather
CDGC
But the best thing about growing old is we all do it together
GDC
So I'll just plant a tree I'll never see grow
GDC
Put a seed in the ground where no one'll know
GDC
Gonna make my plan when the morning breaks
GDC
But I just don't know how long it'll take
CDGCCD
They say that a love that's shared is a love that's carried
GC
All the way to the church where you'll be married
CDGC
And it's a long old way down the aisle to alter and you don't have the time to falter
CD
Love will always come and go I hope
GC
But sometimes love goes up in smoke
CD
And you're left there with the greedy ghost
GC
And just when you need them most
CD
Some of your friends have disappeared
GC
And others started acting weird
CD
And youre left on your bed with an awful feeling
GC
Till you've learned by heart all the cracks in the ceiling
CDGC
And you think Oh god I just related to that awful love song I always hated
CDGC
And the past it all becomes distorted like it was broke before you bought it
CD
Remember, you're the one who paid
GC
Pulled the pin out of the hand grenade
CD
It's up to you to leave your room
GC
But don't forget to bring your spade
GDC
So you can plant a tree you'll never see grow
GDC
Put a seed in the ground where no one'll know
GDC
Gonna make my plan forever to roam
GDC
Gonna feed my nan in the nursing home
GDC
Gonna make that plan when the morning breaks
GDC
But I just don't know how long It'll take
CDGCDC