Garbage Can Ballet Chords

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Garbage Can Ballet by Harry Nilsson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, G, D, A and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			E 
Living in a garbage can can be a lot of fun 
  					    G 
It has its ups and downs of paper cups and coffee grounds 
E 
Living in a garbage can can be a lot of fun 
                                   D   E 
Especially if you meet the perfect damion (?)  

     G 
Oh a great garbage can is just full of good stuff 
All the discarded refuse of man  
         A  
Like the half used banana 
Whose girlfriend is Anna who shout “let us out of this can” 
  
          G 
woh, woh, woh, said the poor Brussels sprout 
If only me and the banana could get out 
     A  
We’d find an asparagus who’d stand up and marry us 
But the first thing to do is get out 

Now an old piece of ham is in love with some lamb 
But a young head of lettuce is too 
But said the ham to the lettuce “the lamb will forget us  
As soon as he learns I love you“ 
  
Oh, oh oh, the great garbage can 
Is a tribute to the ingenuity of man 
Where corn and tomatoes are mixed with potatoes  
And thrown in together with ham 

        A  
Where a Brussels sprout and a sour crout can get together  
And have it out and no one seems to care about the plan 
      B  
And a succotash and a piece of hash can get together and have a bash 
                                E  B 
Life is always equal in the can  
  
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by: José Duarte 
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