Blackmore's Night – Hanging Tree (Guitar)

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verse: Am, E, C G, Am, G, Am Am, E, C G, C, G, C C, G, Dm, Am Am, E, C, G C, G, Am ref: G, C, E, Am Dm, Am F, C, G, H7 end verse: Am, E, C, G Am, G, Em, Am _______________________________________________
  Am        E         C
There have been many tales

 G           Am    G         Am
Tainted by truth twisted by time…

 Am    E           C
Some choose to forget

 G            C      G             C
Yet it still weaves webs in their minds…

        C                            G
And it seems like she's been here forever

      Dm                      Am
Her branches as black as the seas

       Am             E
She's been through it all

        C            G
By the luck of the draw

       C       G             Am
She became the old hanging tree…

 Am E             C
She asked for nothing 

G         Am G         Am
Except maybe a little rain…

  Am E           C 
They used her strength

 G             C    G      C 
To help them steal lives away…

         C                         G 
And she witnessed the sadness and sorrow

         Dm                          Am 
To this day she still doesn't know why 

         Am     E
But her heart broke

           C             G 
When they came with the rope

       C           G             Am 
To declare her the old hanging tree…

 G                  C
Life stranger then fiction

     E                 Am
Can make you want to cry

 Dm                 Am
Roots could never stop her

      F        C        G   H7
From reaching for the sky…

  Am   E              C
Those years have all past

 G        Am  G         Am
Lucky for us lucky for her…

       Am       E          C
Now, children play at her feet

G          C      G          C
And in her arms she cradles birds…

        C                            G
And it seems like she's been here forever

      Dm                      Am
Her branches as black as the seas

       Am             E
She's been through it all

        C            G
By the luck of the draw

       C       G             Am
She became the old hanging tree…

          Am          E           C           G
Yes somewhere in the back of her mind is the time

          Am         G    Em       Am
she was known as the old hanging tree...