The Groundskeeper

Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste [Intro] D [Verse 1] D D Gm D There’s a breeze and it’s blowing me down the road, rattling this bag of bone D D As I make my way through the storm, C G D there’s a scrapyard prowler on my tail D D D I flagged me down a driver, I says take me the long way home for I am the passenger seat prophet you’ve been waiting for and C G D I long to see the chicken wire again D I awoke in the morning D with a green throat and a sore head, D D like a jellyfish sprawled on your clean bed C And not knowing what to do, G D I just fell in love with you as C x G D (faster) the dog outside the door craved my attention D (faster) Am G [Chorus] D A Am I think I’d like to meet The Groundskeeper D Am but I don’t know D Am I think I’ve lost him along the way. D Am He’s been etherized D Am he’s got William Burroughs’ eyes I think he’s had his day lounging in the sun D D with his weed gun, thorns and nettles on the run Am The ragged brush he swept the pavement which he kept so D Am clean, I’ve seen it in a dream [Verse 2] D Then sitting down Am7 Am D Wiping off the sweat from his furrowed brow, with a rag of Irish tweed. Am G D Yeah yeah yeahhh Am G D Yeah yeah yeahhh D Take me back Am Am D I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time D Take me back Am Am D I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time D Am [Chorus] D Am D I think I’d like to meet The Groundskeeper (Yeah man if you're sure) D Am I think he’s brewing tea (Come with me, let’s see) D Am x Behind the willow door manuscripts lie bare fill them with words that reassure like a language no one’s speaking anymore [Verse 3] D Am In the corner there’s a bookcase for his bed and a thin straw hat to rest upon his head, D Am he says it brings him closer to the land so it wears it as a crown for the common man D Am Yeah yeah yeahhhh D Am Yeah yeah yeahhhh [Chorus] D Take me back Am Am D I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time D Take me back Am Am D Am I’ll abuse no more I’ve been falling by the wayside in real time [Outro] D Am I think I’d like to meet The Groundskeeper D Am But I don't know, I think I lost him along the wayyyyyyyy D