Leaves That Are Green

Standard Tuning
Capo 5th Fret

If you want to pick it like Paul does, try the following pattern for the intro and
first line, then extrapolate down.  Sorry for the lack of detail.

           
e|---0-----1--
B|1-----3-3---
G|--0----2----
D|-2----------
A|3-----------
E|------0-----

      
------------|
0--0--1--1--|
--0-----0---|
-0-----2----|
------3-----|
3-----------|


[Intro]
   
   

             
I was twenty-o

            
ne years when 

            
I wrote this s

ong
    C                       F     G      C    <---F and G on this line are quarter notes.
I'm twenty-three now, but I won't be for long
            
Time hurries o

n
             
And the leaves

           
 that are gree

          
n turn to brow

n
         
And they withe

r with the win

d
            
And they crumb

           
le in your han

d.

Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl
I held her close, but she faded in the night
Like a poem I meant to write
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand.

I threw a pebble in a brook
And watched the ripples run away
And they never made a sound
And the leaves that are green turn to brown
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand.

           
Hello, hello, 

      
hello, hello
            
Goodbye, goodb

            
ye, goodbye, g

oodbye
             
That's all the

   
re is
             
And the leaves

           
 that are gree

          
n turn to brow

n.