The Family Gardener Chords
by The Minus 5
The Family Gardener by The Minus 5 is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Em, F, Bb, Gm, Cm, Dm, Am, Ab, D, G and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C
Verse
C
The family garden is a special place
Em
In sun and shade there, I was raised
C F
But voices fade away and rooms are rearranged
C Bb Gm C
Now I'm the family gardener
Verse
You need a stethoscope and a good good rake
Em
Some beer for snails and a rope for snakes
C Cm Dm F
A flowerbed to fall in as the moonlight breaks
C Bb C
When you're the family gardener
Em F
And I'm the family gardener
Bridge
C
As I look down with my two eyes and my two green thumbs
Am Ab
I despise the people who walk on the green green grass
C D
I grew with my watered love
Instrumental
G Bb C
Verse
Now some other son sleeps in the southern wing
Bm Em C
And someone else's mother sits to paint the pastoral scene
Dm F
My father always said that I would never amount to anything
C Bb C
But I'm the family gardener
Ab Am
I'm the family gardener
F C G C
I'm the family gardener
Ending
C