The Talking Leaves

The Talking Leaves easy guitar chords by Johnny Cash

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

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  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Dsus4

  • Dm

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Dsus4

  • Dm

  • Intro 1


    Verse 1
    Sequoia's 
    winters were sixteen 


    Silent 
    tongue 
    spir
    it 
    clean 

    He walked 
    at 
    his father's 
    side 

    Across 
    the smoking 
    battle 
    ground 

    Where 
    red 
    and 
    white 
    men 
    lay 
    all around 

    So 
    many 
    here 
    had died 

    Verse 2
    The wind 
    had 
    scattered 
    around 

    Snow 
    white 
    leaves 
    upon 
    the ground 

    Not 
    leaves 
    like 
    leaves 
    from 
    trees 

    Sequoia 
    said, 
    "What can 
    this 
    be?" 

    "What's 
    the strange 

    thing 
    here I 
    see?" 

    "From 
    where 
    come 
    leaves 

    like 
    these?" 

    Verse 3
    Sequoia 
    turned 
    to 
    his father's 
    eyes 

    And 
    he said, 
    "Father 
    you're 
    wise 

    From 
    where 
    come 
    such 

    snow 
    white 
    leaves 

    With 
    such 
    strange 
    marks 
    upon 

    these 
    squares 

    Not even 
    the 
    wise 
    owl 
    could 
    put 
    them 
    there 

    So 
    strange 
    these 
    snow 
    white 
    leaves" 

    Verse 4
    His 
    father 
    shielding 
    his 
    concern 

    Resenting 
    the knowledge 

    Sequoia 
    yearned 

    Crumbled 
    the snow 
    white 
    leaves 

    He said, 
    "When 
    I explain 

    then 
    it's done 

    These 
    are 
    talking 
    leaves, 
    my son 

    The white 
    men's 
    talk

    ing 
    leaves" 

    Verse 5
    The white 
    man 
    takes 
    a berry 

    of 
    black 
    and 
    red 

    And 
    an eagle's 
    feather 

    from 
    the eagle's 
    bed 

    And he 
    makes 
    bird 
    track 
    marks 

    And the marks 
    on 
    the leaves 
    they 
    say 

    Carry 
    messages 
    to 
    his 
    brother 
    far 
    away 

    And his 
    brother 
    knows 

    Verse 6
    what's 
    in his 
    heart 


    They see 
    these 
    marks 
    and they 

    understand 

    The truth 
    in 
    the heart 
    of 
    the far 
    off 
    man 

    The 
    enemies 
    can't hear 
    them 

    Said 
    Sequoia's father, 
    "Son 

    They 
    weave 
    bad 
    medicine 

    on these 
    talking 
    leaves 

    Leave 
    such 
    things 
    to 
    them" 

    Verse 7
    Then 
    Sequoia 
    walking 
    lightly 

    Fol
    lowed 
    his 
    father 
    quietly 

    But so 
    amazed 
    was 
    he 

    If the 
    white 
    man 
    talks 
    on 
    leaves 

    Why 
    not the 
    Cherokee? 

    Verse 8

    Vanished 
    from 
    his father's 
    face 

    Sequoi
    went 
    from place 
    to place 

    But 
    he could 
    not 
    forget 

    Year 
    after 
    year 
    he worked 
    on 
    and on 

    Till 
    finally 
    he 
    cut 
    in
    to stone 

    Verse 9
    The 
    Cherokee 
    alphabet 


    Sequoia's hair 
    by now 
    was 
    white 

    His 
    eyes 
    began 
    to 
    lose 
    their 
    light 

    But 
    he 
    taught 
    all 
    who would 
    believe 

    That 
    the 
    Indian's 
    thoughts 

    could 
    be 
    written 
    down 

    Just 
    as the 
    white 
    men's 

    there 
    on 
    the ground 

    Outro 1
    And 
    he 
    left 
    us 
    these 
    talking 
    leaves 


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