Key: B minor
Intro 1
Am
E
G#dim
Am
C
F
E
Verse 1
Am
C
F
E
a tree for every newborn babe
C
F
E
John and they watched it day by day
Am
C
The tree it grew in a very strange
F
E
way as twisted as a knot
Am
C
And the child he grew in the very same way and
F
E
never would his parents have thought.
Verse 2
C
F
E
read as well as he could talk
Am
C
But his limbs were as twisted as the tree
F
E
and never would he walk
Am
C
People would come to stop and stare
F
E
and you could hear them say
C
F
E
and then be on their way.
Bdim
Verse 3
Bb
Am
E
F
C
Sing a song of joy, lift your hearts in song
Am
E
For a newborn boy,
F
Am
E
for a life that's long
F
Am
F
Am
For a life that's long.
Verse 4
Am
C
Now he loved the tree even though it was
F
E
as twisted as himself
Am
C
For somewhere deep inside his soul
F
E
he thought of nothing else
C
F
E
did the best he could but his limbs remained the same
C
F
E
stand someone who is lame.
Verse 5
Am
came
C
F
E
to laugh the day he passed away
Am
C
He's really not dead, he's just taking a nap,
F
E
I heard somebody say
Am
C
I really can't explain the tree had died,
F
E
it withered without love
Am
C
But a stump remains to remind us of
E
Bdim
Bb
Verse 6
Am
E
Sing a song of death,
F
C
sing a song of peace
Am
E
F
Sing a song of rest and a
Am
E
song of relief
F
Am
E
Till the end of time
F
Am
E
Till the end of time
F
Am
Till the end of time.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm E G#dim C F...
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