The Handsome Family – Where The Birch Trees Lean (Guitar)

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Now that there are green sprouts pushing through dead leaves,

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and fat yellow jackets float on the breeze,

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the waves kiss the shore and the air is warm,

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but birch trees are falling now that you are gone

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Once we walked the crumbling cliffs

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where the birch trees lean

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Once I kissed your apple lips

F      C        G
high above the sea

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A year ago it was when the last clover grew

F               C          G
Under creaking birch trees I would wait for you

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We kissed in the salt air between the leaning trees,

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white slender branches bent to the sea

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Once we walked the crumbling cliffs

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where the birch trees lean

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who will kiss your apple lips

F          C     G
under the salty sea