Spring & All
Greg Brown

Greg Brown
Slant 6 Mind
1997

I first saw Greg Brown at the 1998 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
in upstate New York.  I'm into the blues thing a little so his
music really struck me as some good modern acoustic blues.
I saw the album at the HMV in Harvard Square when I was visiting
Boston for graduate school, and had my parents buy me a present
(credit cards are wonderful...).  This tune is my favorite off
the record.  Work on that deep voice.

Lyrics

INTRO:

   C                                   Dm                        Em
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----1---------5-|-----1-------3---|
B:-----1-------1---|-----1-------1---|-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---|
G:-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----2-----2-----|-----2-------0---|
D:---------0h2-----|---------2-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------2-------|
A:-3---------------|-3---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


   F                         G/B       C                         G/B
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----1-------1---|-----1-----------|-----0-------0-0-|-----0-----------|
B:-----1-------1---|-----1-------0---|-----1-------1-1-|-----1-------0---|
G:-----2-------2---|-----2-------0---|-----0-------0-0-|-----0-------0---|
D:-3---------------|-3-----------0---|-----------------|-------------0---|
A:---------3-------|---------0h2-----|-3-------3-------|-3-------0h2-----|
E:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

Here is the VERSE (play 2x per verse):

           spring and what's left of the   hippies     return
   C                                   Dm
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----0-------0-0-|-----0-------0-0-|-----1-------1-1-|-----1-----------|
B:-----1-------1-1-|-----1-------1-1-|-----3-------3-3-|-----3-----------|
G:-----0-------0-0-|-----0-------0-0-|-----2-------2-2-|-----2-----------|
D:-----------------|-----------------|-0-------0-------|-0-----------0---|
A:-3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|
E:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


       from old rooming houses and         Mexico
   F/C                                 C                 Cadd9
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----1-------1-1-|-----1-------1---|-----0-------0-0-|-----0-------0-0-|
B:-----1-------1-1-|-----1-------1---|-----1-------1-1-|-----3-------3-3-|
G:-----2-------2-2-|-----2-------2---|-----0-------0-0-|-----0-------0-0-|
D:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A:-3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|
E:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

The BREAK looks like this:

   C                                   Dm                        Em
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----1-------1---|-----1-------3---|
B:-----1-------1---|-----1-------1---|-----3-------3---|-----3-------3---|
G:-----0-------0---|-0-----------0---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------0---|
D:---------0h2-----|---------0h2-----|-0-------0-------|-0-------0h2-----|
A:-3---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


   F                                   C                 C       G/B
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----1-------1---|-----1-----------|-----0-------0---|-----0-----------|
B:-----1-------1---|-----1-----------|-----1-------1---|-----1-------0---|
G:-----2-------2---|-0h2-2---2---0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|
D:-3-------3-------|-----3-----------|-----------------|-------------0---|
A:-----------------|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-3-------0h2-----|
E:-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

LYRICS:

play intro

Spring and what's left of the hippies return
From old rooming houses and Mexico
More letters more journals more poems to burn
Real heat at last at last my words glow

play break tab


My friend Jim just broke up his band
The guys all have jobs and the nights got too long
He's sellin' the amps one guitar and the van
I'm sure you could have it all for a song

play break tab


Snow on the north side trash in the yard
Love like a newspaper tattered and stained
A two bourbon twilight fog from God's cigar
The neighbor's retarded dog chasing the train

play break tab


Don't see any good in just hangin' around
Take a tip from the birds and change the scene
Find some long river and follow it down
To where our old sins have washed up in New Orleans

play break tab


Spring and what's left of the songbirds return
To fight about loving and nesting and such
Thanks for your letters you sent back to burn
Their smoke is as light and as dark as your touch

play break tab and repeat until fade