Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Verse 1:
A minorAm Am7Am7
Come little children
C majorC G+G
I'll take thee away
DmDm A minorAm E minorEm E7E7
Into a land of enchantment
A minorAm Am7Am7
Come little children
C majorC G+G
The time's come to play
DmDm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
Here in my garden of shadows
Verse 2:
A minorAm Am7Am7
Follow sweet children
C majorC G+G
I'll show thee the way
DmDm A minorAm E minorEm E7E7
Through all the pain and the sorrows
A minorAm Am7Am7
Weep not poor children
C majorC G+G
For life is this way
DmDm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
Murdering beauty and passions
Interlude:
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm E MajorE
Ooooooh, ooooooh
Verse 3:
A minorAm DmDm
Are you, are you
A minorAm E MajorE
Coming to the tree
A minorAm DmDm
Where they strung up a man
A minorAm
They say who murdered three.
A minorAm DmDm
Strange things did happen here
A minorAm E MajorE
No stranger would it be
A minorAm DmDm
If we met at midnight
E minorEm A minorAm
In the hanging tree
Interlude:
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm E MajorE
Ooooooh, ooooooh
Verse 4:
A minorAm Am7Am7
Hush now dear children,
C majorC G+G
it must be this way
DmDm A minorAm E minorEm E7E7
Too weary of life and deceptions
A minorAm FF
Strange things did happen here
A minorAm E minorEm
No stranger would it be
A minorAm DmDm
If we met at midnight...........Into the calm
E minorEm A minorAm
In the hanging tree.............And the quiet
Verse 5:
A minorAm DmDm
Are you, are you
A minorAm E MajorE
Coming to the tree
DmDm A minorAm E minorEm E7E7
Through all the pain and the sorrows
A minorAm FF
Strange things did happen here
A minorAm E minorEm
No stranger would it be
A minorAm DmDm
If we met at midnight................Murdering beauty
E minorEm A minorAm
In the hanging tree..................And passions
A minorAm FF
Strange things did happen here.......Weep not poor children
A minorAm E minorEm
No stranger would it be..............For life is this way
A minorAm DmDm
If we met at midnight................Murdering beauty
E minorEm A minorAm
In the hanging tree..................And passions
Verse 6:
A minorAm DmDm
Are you, are you
A minorAm E MajorE
Coming to the tree
A minorAm DmDm
Dead man called out
A minorAm
For his love to flee.
A minorAm Am7Am7
Come little children
C majorC G+G
The time's come to play
DmDm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
Here in my garden of shadows
Interlude:
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm E MajorE
Ooooooh, ooooooh
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm E MajorE
Ooooooh, ooooooh
Verse 7:
A minorAm Am7Am7
Come little children
C majorC G+G
I'll take thee away
DmDm A minorAm E minorEm E7E7
Into a land of enchantment
A minorAm Am7Am7
Come little children.................Strange things did happen here
C majorC G+G
The time's come to play..............No stranger would it be
DmDm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
Here in my garden of shadows.........If we met at midnight in the hanging tree