Chords with lyrics
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":