Misc Originals – Aaron Segal - The Blighted Tree (Guitar)

     Am
The healthy oak was strong and tall

      C
Her branches reached for sky

        G
Till a maple tree with blighted leaves

 E7            Am
Came into her life

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At first the Maple seemed so strong

    C
But in his trunk, was dark and wrong

     G
His roots were twisted, deep and cold

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Leaves were shriveled, bark was old

     Am
The oak tree she once stood so proud

     C
But now she’s wilting, falling down

     G
Her leaves are yellow, fading fast

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Her branches bare, she cannot last

      F
The blighted tree, the blighted tree

        C
He’s spreading his disease

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Poisoning the healthy oak

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And leaving her in mi-ser-y

      F
The blighted tree, the blighted tree

        C
He’s spreading his disease

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Sickening the forest

     Am
And killing off the trees

    Am
A sturdy elm sprouts next to oak,

     C
And sees that she is being choked,

     G
She leans on him, their limbs entwine

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He lends strength as her health declines

     Am
But Oak is also deeply tangled

      C
With Maple’s poisoned sap,

      G
Her branches must be trimmed from him

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Before her trunk is snapped.

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Oak needs to prune herself away

      C
But thinks the pain will never fade

        G
She’s shared his roots for many years

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And not sure she can face her fears

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Elm knows that Oak has been affected

 C
By the maple tree infected.

G
Oak grips both and poisons Elm.

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And soon they’ll all be overwhelmed.

      F
The blighted tree, the blighted tree

        C
He’s spreading his disease

 G             E7
Poisoning the healthy oak

     Am     Am/B   C  C/B Am
And leaving her in mi-ser-y

      F
The blighted tree, the blighted tree

        C
He’s spreading his disease

 G             E7
Sickening the forest

     Am
And killing off the trees

     F
Oak decomposed, she never let go

C
Of her toxic mate.

     G                   E7
Elm shed his leaves to blanket her,

     Am
And timber was his fate.