The Giving Tree chords by Plain White T's

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice

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

Capo 1st Fret

Intro
Em G Am G F#m

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

      C     G
If all you wanted was love
       D  B G
Why would you use me up
    C   D           G
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
      C     G   B      Em
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Em7  C       D         G
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?

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

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

      C     G
If all you wanted was love
       D  B G
Why would you use me up
    C   D           G
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
      C     G   B      Em
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Em7  C       D         G
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?

(One Strum per chord)
    C       D         G