Bruce Cockburn – If A Tree Falls (Guitar)

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From the album Big Circumstance [Intro] G Em D x2 [Verse 1]
G         Em                D
Rainforest, mist and mystery, teeming green

        G                  Em
Green brain facing lobotomy, climate control centre for the world

D
Ancient cord of coexistence hacked by parasitic greedhead scam

G                Em                      D
From Sarawak to Amazonas, Costa Rica to mangy BC hills, cortege rhythm of falling timber

G                                               Em                              D
What kind of currency grows in these new deserts, these brand new flood plains?
[Chorus]
      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?

      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?

G                  Em              D
          Anybody hear the forest fall?
[Verse 2]
G              Em               D
Cut and move on, cut and move on, take out trees

                                          G
Take out wildlife at a rate of a species every single day

Em                                                             D
Take out people who've lived like this for a hundred thousand years

D
And inject a billion burgers worth of beef

G           Em                   D
Grain eaters, methane dispensers

G                 Em                            D
Through thinning ozone, waves fall on wrinkled earth

                                    G
Gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars

                   Em                        D
Speak of a drowning, but this, this is something other

D
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world

G                           Em                D
Where wild things have to go to disappear forever
[Chorus]
      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?

      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?

G                  Em              D
          Anybody hear the forest fall?

      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?

      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?

G                  Em              D
          Anybody hear the forest fall?
[Outro] G Em D
      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest
G Em D
      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest
G Em D
      G                 Em                  D
If a tree falls in the forest
G Em D (Fade out)