It's Not Easy Being Green Chords
by Muppets
It's Not Easy Being Green by Muppets is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, C/B, Am, Em/G, Dm/F, G, C7, F, Dm, G7 and Am7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
It's not that easy being green
C/B Am
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
Em/G Dm/F
When I think it could be nicer
G
being red, or yellow, or gold
C G
Or something much more colorful like that
C
It's not easy being green
C/B Am
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
Em/G Dm/F
And people tend to pass you over
G
'Cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
C C7
Or stars in the sky
F
But green's the color of spring
G C Am
And green can be cool and friendly-like
Dm
And green can be big like a mountain
F
Or important like a river
G G7
Or tall like a tree
C
When green is all there is to be
C/B Am
It could make you wonder why
Am7 Em/G
But why wonder why wonder
Dm/F
I am green, and it'll do fine
G C
It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be