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Tea Leaf Green returns to GAMH, April 2010

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January 2009, Tags Archive. New method of categorizing songs and finding common themes. For example, find songs associated with the tag 'travel'.

November 2008, improved search results pages now with playable mp3 when you search for any word or theme (try listening to 10 bird songs for example).

Tea Leaf Green is a prolific rock band of original songwriters from San Francisco, California. Fans collect and annotate the repertoire of TLG on this evolving songbook site. Start with a random quote:

Recent Comments: 519 comments posted so far

Can You Guess It?: Pretty much the whole song is A and G until A Cm# D x2 if you run away, don’t take me... edevitt >

Papa’s In The Backroom: guitar solo- hes fast picking some chords from 4:20+, it might be the main theme... gus >

Strange Ode To Nature: John..thanks so much for getting back to me with the chords, I love this song.... claydavis >

California: verse: G D# C D chorus: Em/G C G A# A repeat (I like A#dim to A) sometimes they solo around G dim... j0hn >

Cops Took My Weed: Verse: A F#m D A G D A Chorus: F#m E D A D A D A F#m D A edevitt >

All Washed Up: Verse: Cm G, Cm G Cm Chorus: G Cm Bb, G Cm G Cm Bb G# G Fm G Cm Bridge: Fm Cm G Cm Bb D# x3... edevitt >

Can You Guess It?: Can anyone tab this out? It’s mostly A and G, but there’s a few chords I... edevitt >

Zoom Zoom: verse: G F C#dim C chorus: Fm G# A#7 repeat, then A# G C D, then back to verse G F C#dim C I... j0hn >

Strange Ode To Nature: Clay, I’ll help ya out with the chords if you help me out with what the lyrics... j0hn >

Boomtown: Verse: Em(7?) A x3 BBBB Em A x3 BBBB Em BBBB Em Chorus: AAA Em AAA B AAA Em D Bridge (?) F#m C#m... edevitt >

Carter Hotel: Unless I’m hallucinating, I believe that after the line (or lyric) “they all... monibean >

Goodbye Mary (Hello Jane): Chords, as figured out by myself from watching daniels video verse G,B,A,A G,B,A,A... AIP >

Vote on Tuesday: deuce’s chords are incorrect. sexmonkey’s chords are good. thanks sexmonkey! j0hn >

Back When the Age Was Young: The line “hes drunk off of junk” should say “the... Petronis >

Ten Billion Years: For what it’s worth, the fourth stanza is clearly inspired by Robert... Petronis >

Fan Favorites:

Songs with Maps:

  • Create a map on a web mapping service and post it in the Comments of a song.
  • View all maps & submit your map ideas in the comments of any song.

Song Map of Hanging From A Tree
Link Map of Hanging From A Tree - Back in Tennessee... swept right into the sea

Song Map of I Got No Friends in Arizona
Link I Got No Friends in Arizona map

Song Map of Jackson Hole
Link Tea Leaf Green - Jackson Hole map

Song Map of John Brown
Link Tea Leaf Green - John Brown left his red brick engine-house map

Song Map of Las Vegas
Link Tea Leaf Green - Las Vegas map

Song Map of Let Us Go
Link Let Us Go map

Song Map of Mosquito From Colusa
Link Mosquito From Colusa map

Song Map of Not Fit
Link Not Fit map of Strawberry Hill

Songs Recently Added:

Santa Cruz

mp3 | Print | Tea Leaf Green Lyrics A-Z > Santa Cruz | Notes/Corrections?

Baby let’s go down to Santa Cruz
Got nothing to gain so much to lose
The valley is so hot
We’ve been caught all summer here
No mistake
We must escape
Santa Cruz

There’s a beach I know called Bonny Doon
We don’t have to wear our swimmin suits
Jump into the ocean without a stitch of clothin
Skinny dippin in the sea of Bonny Doon

Let’s go down to Santa Cruz
We can use my grandmas campervan
We will drive that old machine into the sand
If we should get it stuck there
I won’t care
I’m in a rut here
I need to get on down to Santa Cruz
Let’s go down to Santa Cruz

The highway night
Take our time
Over skylight

Through them redwood ruins
We’ll roll right through them to santa cruz

We can watch the sunset in the west
Or the rising moon if we should stay
We’ll light a fire
Drink some wine
Write messages no one will find
In bottles we cork will be cast away
I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Baby let’s go down
Baby let’s go down
Baby let’s go down
Baby let’s go down to Santa Cruz

Cottonwood Tree

mp3 | Print | Tea Leaf Green Lyrics A-Z > Cottonwood Tree | Notes/Corrections?

There is so often
There is feel in the atmosphere
Just a reminder
We were all children once

Even when you can’t stand to look
It is impossible to miss
We once played there
By the swings and the rusty chairs
Why do we have to grow up?
I can still see us play
Back in the shade
Of the cottonwood tree
In the summer back home in LA

We are a waterfall
And we crash below
But eventually
We flow to sea

Sand would fill our shoes
And we wouldn’t bother
Instead we would let it slip
From one toe over the other
And the pavement would scrape
When we fell to our knees
And the blood formed a line
It looked just like limbs on a tree
Why do we have to grow up
I can still see us play

Back in the shade
Of the cottonwood tree
In the summer back home in LA

We are a waterfall
We crash below
But eventually we flow to sea

New Shoes

mp3 | Print | Tea Leaf Green Lyrics A-Z > New Shoes | Notes/Corrections?
I need new shoes New shoes to bend Break and mend Force the world ...

Good For You

mp3 | Print | Tea Leaf Green Lyrics A-Z > Good For You | Notes/Corrections?
I used to think I really had to stand for somethin' But ...

Glenda Loch

mp3 | Print | Cover Songs > Glenda Loch | Notes/Corrections?
late last night bout half past three I could not get back ...

Don’t Think Twice, It’s Allright

mp3 | Print | Cover Songs > Don’t Think Twice, It’s Allright | Notes/Corrections?
It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don’t ...

Run That Body Down

mp3 | Print | Cover Songs > Run That Body Down | Notes/Corrections?
Went to my doctor yesterday She said I seem to be O.K. She ...

Never Tear Us Apart

mp3 | Print | Cover Songs > Never Tear Us Apart | Notes/Corrections?
Don't ask me What you know is true Don't have to tell you I ...

I Got Stoned and Missed It

mp3 | Print | Cover Songs > I Got Stoned and Missed It | Notes/Corrections?
Oh yes boys play it sweet for me I was sittin' in ...

Easy To Be Your Lover

mp3 | Print | Tea Leaf Green Lyrics A-Z > Easy To Be Your Lover | Notes/Corrections?
oh our love is like your long hair it's full of twists ...

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