Am, E, CG, Am, G, AmAm, E, CG, C, G, CC, G, Dm, AmAm, E, C, GC, G, Am
ref:
G, C, E, AmDm, Am
F, C, G, H7
end verse:
Am, E, C, GAm, G, Em, AmE|-----------------------------------------------|AmEC
There have been many tales
GAmGAm
Tainted by truth twisted by time…
AmEC
Some choose to forget
GCGC
Yet it still weaves webs in their minds…
CG
And it seems like she's been here forever
DmAm
Her branches as black as the seas
AmE
She's been through it all
CG
By the luck of the draw
CGAm
She became the old hanging tree…
AmEC
She asked for nothing
GAmGAm
Except maybe a little rain…
AmEC
They used her strength
GCGC
To help them steal lives away…
CG
And she witnessed the sadness and sorrow
DmAm
To this day she still doesn't know why
AmE
But her heart broke
CG
When they came with the rope
CGAm
To declare her the old hanging tree…
GC
Life stranger then fiction
EAm
Can make you want to cry
DmAm
Roots could never stop her
F C G H7
From reaching for the sky…
AmEC
Those years have all past
GAmGAm
Lucky for us lucky for her…
AmEC
Now, children play at her feet
GCGC
And in her arms she cradles birds…
CG
And it seems like she's been here forever
DmAm
Her branches as black as the seas
AmE
She's been through it all
CG
By the luck of the draw
CGAm
She became the old hanging tree…
AmECG
Yes somewhere in the back of her mind is the time
AmGEmAm
she was known as the old hanging tree...