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Cant you hear your mama talking
She told you to hush your idling tongue
Sit down in your chair boy
Eat your supper, leave your brother alone
I was once, Just like you
I was green and blue.
Well my mother told my father one day
How much she had loved her life with him
Then she rose up from her body
And she vanished in the blue and green spring.
She was once, Just like me
Now shes gone into the blue and green.
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
Well you shouldve seen my grandmother
She was strong and tough as any man
She was sweet and gentle,
When she held you like the lover she used to have.
But he was gone, Now so it seems
But they live on in the blue and green
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
Well keep on growing up so fast
Life will hit you hard as you can take
Well tell me all your troubles boy
And I will try and take those troubles away.
Cos you were once, Just like me
We are coming from the blue and green
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen the blue and green.
Blue and green,
Blue and green,
You aint lived till youve seen
Cant you hear your mama talking
She told you to hush your idling tongue.