Intro: C, F, C, F

[Verse 1]
C                    
  Got up before dawn
F                           C       F       
  Went down to the racetrack
C                            
   Riding with the windows down
F                                    C           F      
   Shortly after your first heart attack.
Am                           C     
   You parked behind the paddock,
Am                          C       
   Cracking asphalt underfoot,
Am                           C
   Coming up through the cracks


[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things

C, F, C, F

[Verse 2]
C                                         
   You watched the horses run their workouts
F                                          C       F       
   You held your stopwatch in your left hand
C                                      
   And a Racing Form beneath your arm
F                                         C              F 
   Casting your gaze way out to no man's land
Am                                  C       
   Sometimes I'll meet you out there
Am                 C       
   Lonely and frightened
Am                                    C
   Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves


[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things


C, F, C, F, C, F, C, F, Am, C, Am, C, Am, C, G, C


[Verse 3]
C
   My sister called at 3 AM
F                    C       F       
   Just last December
C
   She told me how you'd died at last, at last.
F                                           C                     F 
   That morning at the racetrack was one thing that I remembered                      
Am                                  C    
   I turned it over in my mind
Am                                  C    
   Like a living Chinese finger trap
Am                                  C    
   Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass


[Chorus]
             G                  C
Pale green things, pale green things