Dave Matthews Band – The Dreaming Tree (Guitar)

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Artist: Dave Matthews Band Song: The Dreaming Tree Album: Before These Crowded Streets Tabbed: Ryan Lloyd [email protected] Intro:
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	Dm
Standing here

		Bb
The old man said to me,

			C
"Long before these crowded streets

			Am
Here stood my dreaming tree."

		Dm
Below it he would sit

		Bb
For hours at a time

		C
Now progress takes away

			Am
What forever took to find

		Dm
And now he's falling hard

		Bb
He feels the falling dark

		C
How he longs to be

		Am
Beneath his dreaming tree

		Dm
Conquered fear to climb

		Bb
A moment froze in time

		C	
When the girl who first he kissed

		Am
Promised him she'd be his

		Dm
Remembered mother's words

		Bb
There beneath the tree

		C
"No matter what the world

		Am
You'll always be my baby."

		Dm
"Mommy come quick,

		Bb
The dreaming tree has died."

		C
The air is growing thick

		Am
A fear he cannot hide

			Dm		Bb	C
The dreaming tree has died
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Oh, have you no pity?

		F
This thing I do

		D
I do not deny it

		A
All through this smile

		G
As crooked as danger

	F
I do not deny

		D
I know in my mind

		A
I would leave you now

		G
If I had the strength to

		F
I would leave you up

		D
To your own devices

		A
Will you not talk?

		G
Can you take pity?

		F
I don't ask much	

		C	A
But won't you speak, please?
From the start She knew she had it made Easy up 'til then For sure she'd make the grade Adorers came in hordes To lay down in her wake Gave it all she had But treasures slowly fade Now she's falling hard Feels the fall of dark How did this fall apart? She drinks to fill it up A smile of sweetest flowers Wilted so and soured Black tears stain the cheeks That once were so admired She thinks when she was small There on her father's knee How he had promised her, "You'll always be my baby." "Daddy come quick, The dreaming tree has died I can't find my way home There is no place to hide The dreaming tree has died." Oh, if I had the strength to I would leave you up To your own devices Will you not talk? Can you take pity? I don't ask much But won't you speak, please?