Misc Musicals – In Strange Woods - Ballad Of The Strange Woods (Guitar)

      Dm
These trees were planted long ago

      F
When humankind was young

     G
And in the intervening years

F                  C
Poets, saints, and balladeers

      Dm               Bb
Have writ of all the sundry fears

      C                G
That lie within the woods

     Bb       C      D
The strange, strange woods

   D
And when the winter brings to bear

     F
That cold and creeping night

    G
We huddle 'round the solstice feast

  F                C
Awaiting daylight from the east

   D              Bb
To ward off any howling beast

     C                 G
That wanders from the woods

    F        C        D
The strange, strange woods

    D
By now you've likely recognized

     F
The reason in this rhymе

   G
It isn't rivers, rocks, or trees

     F                    C
That make the woods as strangе as these

     D                  Bb
It's life's unwelcome guarantees

      C                 G
That constitute these woods

    Bb
The things that make us hurt and grow--

C
Sudden grief, incessant woe--

    Dm                 G
They come to all and all will know

    Bb                 G
The darkness of those woods

  Bb          C       D
The strange, strange woods