Misc Praise Songs – Michelle C Funk - The Green Of The Trees (Ukulele)

Bb                                       Dm
I had nothing to give you so I offered a memory

Gm                                           F
of a love more distant than the green of the trees

Bb                                                     Dm
Who have budded and blossomed and leafed, ambered and fallen

Gm                                Bb
more times than ten since last we met

Bb                                          Dm
Once in your arms I heard you say that we’d marry

Gm                                    F
Once your mother in Arabic called me beloved

Eb                          Bb
And you called me yours in turn,

F                       Bb
you called me yours in turn.

Bb                                      Dm
How those greens bittered and dried, I remember

Gm                                       F
How those beautiful words withered like leaves

Bb                                                Dm
The betrayals, neglect and deceit, filled me with anger

Gm                                         Bb
and my heart grew too hard to receive your words

Bb                                                  Dm
But I hear the voices of those I would have called family

Gm                                                 F
and their struggle against theft and the settler’s gun

Eb                                                Bb
And I sing for their lives and the hope of their liberation,

F                                        Bb
That their feet will fall safe on their land

Eb                                               Bb
And I sing for their lives and the hope of their liberation,

F                                       Bb
That their feet will fall safe on their land

Bb                                       Dm
I had nothing to give you so I offered a memory

Gm                                           F
of a love more distant than the green of the trees

Bb                                                       Dm
Who’ve seen pruning and budding and bloom, fruit set and harvest,

Gm                                    Bb
more times than 5 thousand before we met

Bb                                      Dm
I had nothing to give you so I offered forgiveness

Gm                                                    F
And the wish that you’re well and you’re all feeling held

Eb                             Bb
and I told you the heart can’t forget

F                                  Bb
Can’t forget where once there was love

Eb                                  Bb
and I told you that the heart can’t forget

F                                  Bb
Can’t forget where once there was love