i was an oak tree chords by
Jonathan Byrd

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Key: Ab major

Verse 1
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I was an oak tree.
I took a thousand years to grow,
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and I've seen kingdoms come and go.
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I've seen the losers turn to
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lords and back again.
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I held the rebels when they hung
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them from my limbs.
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When men of fortune cast their futures on the sea,
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that's when they came for me.

Verse 2
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And I was a slave ship,
under the standard of the cross,
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a hallelujah holocaust.
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And half were dead before
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we reached the other shore,
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and the captain never
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saw the coming storm
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that swept around the cape and
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took us by surprise,
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and only eight survived.

Verse 3
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I was a camp fire, a pile of driftwood
in the sand.
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The only comfort in this land.
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8 hungry sailors roasted
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acorns that they found,
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and left me burning as they
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stumbled towards the sound
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of a church bell ringing out above
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the ocean's wind,
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and I was born again.
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And I am an oak tree,

Verse 4
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out along the wild cape fear,
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and there is talk of freedom here.
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Where is the kingdom that was here before I came,
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where have the people gone
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who only left their names.
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A revolution's just a circle after all,
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and every kingdom falls.

Verse 5

I am an oak tree,

if it takes a thousand years to grow,

I'll see kingdoms come and go,

I'll see kingdoms come and go.

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