Crooked Tree chords by Sting

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: DmDm

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:  DmDm G minorGm A#A# A augmentedA

DmDm      G minorGm             A#A#      A augmentedA
All rise for the Honorable Judge Burrell
DmDm           G minorGm   A#A#             A augmentedA
This court is called to order, These charges are serious
DmDm             G minorGm   A#A#              A augmentedA
Stand up and face the bencch, How do you plead, Sir? How do you plead?

Verse 1:
(Shaggy)
DmDm        G minorGm         A#A#          A augmentedA
??Guilty as charged,the Judge decreed, ??stand up and face the bench
DmDm        G minorGm         A#A#          A augmentedA
I have some words to say to you before we recommence
DmDm          G minorGm     A#A#          A augmentedA
A majorA list of crimes this serious, I swear I have not seen
DmDm          G minorGm     A#A#      A minorAm  A augmentedA
In all the years that I have served Her Majesty the Queen

Verse 2:
(Shaggy)
DmDm       G minorGm     A#A#          A augmentedA
Arson, murder, blackmail, grand larceny and theft
DmDm          G minorGm     A#A#        A augmentedA
Drug dealing, human trafficking, I ask the court, what??s left?
DmDm         G minorGm     A#A#          A augmentedA
Are there words of mitigation, before I pass the sentence?
DmDm          G minorGm    A#A#   A augmentedA      DmDm
Anything that you can tell the court to add to your defense


Verse 3:
(Sting)
A#A#         A augmentedA           G minorGm      FF
I faced the court, thought long and hard, before I gave reply
 E minorEm               A#A#      A augmentedA        A augmentedA
There's something that you need to hear, from me before I die
DmDm          G minorGm      A#A#        A augmentedA
The circumstances of my birth were something short of bliss
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I have this from my mother, it was told to me like this

Verse 4:
(Sting)
DmDm         G minorGm       A#A#            A augmentedA
The day that I was born, she said, The Good Lord woke from slumber
DmDm         G minorGm       A#A#       A augmentedA
Looking a??round his timber yard, He found He had no lumber
DmDm         G minorGm        A#A#         A augmentedA
Apart from some old twisted branch, in shadows left to lurk
Hm        Hm         A#A#       A augmentedA
He pulled it out into the light and set about his works

Verse 5:
(Sting)
DmDm          G minorGm       A#A#         A augmentedA
She told me that the world should not expect too much of me
DmDm          G minorGm       A#A#       A augmentedA    DmDm
When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree
DmDm          G minorGm       A#A#       A augmentedA    DmDm
When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree

Verse 6:
(Shaggy)
 A#A#          A augmentedA
Stand up and face the bench
 G minorGm              FF
I'?ve heard all you'??ve got to say
     Hm7              Gm7Gm7
That there look on your face says you're guilty
  A#A#           A augmentedA
And now it'??s your judgment day?

Verse 7:
(Sting)
DmDm         G minorGm         A#A#          A augmentedA
I'??m not asking for forgiveness, I'??m not proud of what I'??ve done
DmDm         G minorGm         A#A#         A augmentedA
I did the things I had to do, like any other mothers son
DmDm         G minorGm    A#A#        A augmentedA
None of us are perfect, so remember what you see
DmDm          G minorGm       A#A#       A augmentedA    DmDm
When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree
DmDm          G minorGm       A#A#       A augmentedA    DmDm
When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree