The Two Trees Ukulele chords by Loreena Mckennitt

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Intro:
Asus2 A5 (x3)
Am A5
F G Am F G Dm C F F
Am F G G Am F G G
Dm C F F


Verse:
  C      Am      G         C
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
    F    C           G   Am
The holy tree is growing there;
     Am      F    G        C
From joy the holy branches start,
    F       C         G            Am
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
    C        Am      G      C
The changing colours of its fruit
     F           C          G     Am
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
    Am  F         G      C
The surety of its hidden root
    F       C     G      Am
Has planted quiet in the night;
    F       C      G     Am
The shaking of its leafy head
    F         C           G   Am
Has given the waves their melody,
    F       C        G     Am
And made my lips and music wed,
F           C      G        Am
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

Bridge:
F G

Verse:
C         Am      G      C
There the Loves a circle go,
    F       C         G   Am
The flaming circle of our days,
Am      F       G      C
Gyring, spiring to and fro
   F           C        G     Am
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
  F         C        G      Am
Remembering all that shaken hair
    F       C         G    Am
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
      F         C       G      Am
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
  F      C       G         Am
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.


Bridge:
G G G Dm C F F
Am F G G
Dm C F F


Verse:
C       Am          G      C
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
    F       C          G      Am
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Am        F        G            C
Lift up before us     when they pass,
   F    C      G      Am
Or only gaze a little while;
    F       C     G     Am
For there a fatal image grows
F        C      G       Am
That the stormy night receives,
F          C      G          Am
Roots half hidden under the snows,
F      C          G         Am
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
    Am         F       G     C
For all things turn to barrenness
F          C         G      Am
In the dim glass the demons hold,
    Am       F     G    C
The glass of outer weariness,
F         C            G        Am
Made when God slept in times of old.
F                  C      G         Am
There, through the broken branches, go
    F      C    C       Am
The ravens of unresting thought;
F       C       G      Am
Flying, crying, to and fro,
F     Cl       G      Am
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
   F         C         G         Am
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
    F           C      G       Am
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
    F      C         G     Am
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
F       C           G      Am
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.


Bridge:
Am F G G
Am F G G
Am F G G
Dm C F F


Verse:
  C      Am      G         C
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
    F    C           G   Am
The holy tree is growing there;
     Am      F    G        C
From joy the holy branches start,
    F       C         G        Am
And all the trembling branches bear.
  F         C        G      Am
Remembering all that shaken hair
    F       C         G    Am
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
      F         C       G      Am
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
  F      C       G         Am
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.


Outro:
Am F G C
F C G Am
Am F G C
F C G Am (x5)


After William Butler Yeats, "The Two Trees":