The Giving Tree chords by Plain White T's

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Song: The Giving Tree
Album: Should've Gone To Bed EP
Chords by: Matthew Cabigas

Capo 1st Fret

Intro
E minorEm G+G A minorAm G+G F# minorF#m

E minorEm                   G+G
All the leaves on the Giving Tree have fallen
      D MajorD       G+G  F#F#
No shade to crawl in underneath
E minorEm
I've got scars from a pocket knife
   G+G        A minorAm     E minorEm  D MajorD
Where you carved your heart into me

      C majorC     G+G
If all you wanted was love
       D MajorD  BB G+G
Why would you use me up
    C majorC   D MajorD           G+G
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
      C majorC     G+G   BB      E minorEm
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
E minor 7Em7  C majorC       D MajorD         G+G
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?

E minorEm                G+G
I lie in the dead of night and I wonder
   D MajorD       G+G   F#F#
Whose covers you're between
E minorEm
And it's sad laying in his bed
     G+G       D MajorD         G+G  D MajorD
You feel hollow, so you crawl home back to me

      C majorC     G+G
If all you wanted was love
       D MajorD  BB G+G
Why would you use me up
    C majorC   D MajorD           G+G
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
      C majorC     G+G   BB      E minorEm
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
E minor 7Em7  C majorC       D MajorD         G+G
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
A minorAm
Well, I see a trail that starts
C majorC             G+G
A augmentedA line of broken hearts behind you
       D MajorD
That lead you back to me
A minorAm
The once sad and lonely fool
C majorC               D MajorD   D4 D MajorD
With nothing left but roots to show, oh oh

      C majorC     G+G
If all you wanted was love
       D MajorD  BB G+G
Why would you use me up
    C majorC   D MajorD           G+G
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
      C majorC     G+G   BB      E minorEm
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
E minor 7Em7  C majorC       D MajorD         G+G
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?

(One Strum per chord)
    C majorC       D MajorD         G+G

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