Fake Plastic Trees

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

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3   5     5   5   5   -4   4 
Her green plastic watering can 
3   3   5    5  5    5  -3  4 
For her fake Chinese rubber plant 
4  4   -6   6 7  4  4 
In the fake plastic earth 
3    3   5      5    5 5  -4  4 
That she bought from a rubber man 
3  3 5    5    5  5  -3  4 
In a town full of rubber plans 
4  -6  6 7 4  4 
To get rid of itself 

5  5     4   -4   5  5     3   3 
It wears her out, it wears her out 
5  5     -5  5 -4 5  5     3   3 
It wears her out, it wears her out 

3   5     5    5 5  -4  4 
She lives with a broken man 
3 5       5 5  5 -3   4 
A cracked polystyrene man 
4   -6   6   7    4   4 
Who just crumbles and burns 
3  5    5  5  -5 5 4 
He used to do surgery 
5   5     -4 5   6 -3 4 
For girls in the eighties 
4   -6 6 -6 6 7 4    4  
But gravity  always wins 

5  5     4   -4   5  5     3   3 
It wears him out, it wears him out 
5  5     -5  5 -4 4  -5   5 
It wears him out, it wears 

3   5     5    5   5 -4 4 
She looks like the real thing 
3   5      5    5   5 -3 4 
She tastes like the real thing 
4  -6   6 7 4   4 
My fake plastic love 
5   5 5     -4   5   6 -5 5 
But I can't help the feeling 
5       5    -4      5   6 -6 6 -6 6 
I could blow through the ceiling 
4  -6 6    7    4   4 
If I  just turn and run 

3  5     4  -4   5  5     3  3 
It wears me out, it wears me out 
5  5     -5 5 -4 4  -5 5 -4 4  4 
It wears me out, it wears   me out 

5  -5 6     7  -5  -5  5  -4 
If I  could be who you wanted 
-4 5 -5    7  -5  -5  5  4 
If I could be who you wanted 
-3      4 
All the time... 
-3      4 
All the time...

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