--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert Green – Bee Gees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Bee Gees Gilbert Green (1967) (Robin and Barry Gibb) Now a bonus track on the re-release of “Bee Gees’ 1st” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS E-A-D-G-B-e Dm7/G 3-x-0-2-1-1 C/D x-x-0-0-1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO | Dm | % | VERSE

^DmOn a hill, inside a house in Covewell Reach ^DmStands a man who's feeling very ^Ctired ^FLooking at a song he wrote some ^Etime ago ^AmCould have made it big inside a ^GBroadway show

VERSE

^DmEvery day I go away and find ideas ^DmThink I'll climb on top of somewhere ^Chigh ^FCouldn't I write a song about a ^Eman who's dead? ^AmDidn't really know if he was ^Goff his head

CHORUS

^GEv'rybody ^Eknows, ^Amthat's the way it ^F#goes Too ^Gbad for Gilbert ^EGreen Now ^Cwe can tell the ^Aworld that he was ^Dmright

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^DmSitting in his attic on a sunny day ^DmMending fifty goblets that are ^Cworn ^FHumming to himself a song of ^Eyesteryear His ^Amhearing wasn't good but his eyes were ^Gclear

CHORUS

^GEv'rybody ^Eknows, ^Amthat's the way it ^F#goes Too ^Gbad for Gilbert ^EGreen Now ^Cwe can tell the ^Aworld that he was ^Dmright

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^DmNow the house is burnt, along with Gilbert Green ^DmSad to see his sisters stand and ^Ccry And ^Fin the basement lies a song that ^Ewasn't seen ^AmTells the tale of laughing men and ^Gyellow beans

CHORUS

^GEv'rybody ^Eknows, ^Amthat's the way it ^F#goes Too ^Gbad for Gilbert ^EGreen Now ^Cwe can tell the ^Aworld that he was ^D5right

CODA | D | % | Dsus4 D Dsus4 D | | D | Em | D | Em | | G | % | Em Em/Eb | Em/D Em/C# | | G | A | D | | D | B | Em | A | (fade out)

Bee Gees - Gilbert green