Brandon Heath – Bend Joseph (Ukulele)

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I am not my family tree

F
These are different leaves, you know

Am
There are miles and miles between

G
My roots and what I'm tryin' to grow

C
I am not the slave they sold

F
Nor am I royalty

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worn them both The finest coat,

              C
And rags that barely covered me

            Am
But there's mercy in the soil

F
Mercy in the sun

C
Learnin' to forgive 

     G
What cannot be undone

Am 
What was meant to harm

      F
Can't harm you in the end

        C
Stepped out on a limb I thought my break

    G
But love said,

             Am    F
It will only bend

             C     G
It will only bend

C
I am not my past mistakes

F
Labeled by some place in time

Am
Nor am I a trophy case

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Tryin' to maintain my shine

C
I have dreamed a thousand dreams

F
Watch a grain in famine grow

Am
I am not my family tree

                 G   
I have branches of my own

C                      G
Oh, Does fate resign us too?

                     Am            
Find shelter for our wounds

                     F
Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams

C                        G
Oh, But I will choose to stand 

                      Am
In the shadow of Your hand

                         F                      
And see what grows when grace has sown the seed

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Oh, oh, oh

                    Am
These are different leaves, you know

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Oh, oh, oh