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A Proper Sort Of Gardener chords by June Tabor

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Intro:
Chord diagramFF  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramG minorGm

Verse:

Chord diagramFF
Once upon a time I found a garden


Chord diagramBb majorBb                   Chord diagramFF                   Chord diagramC majorC
Picked the brightest things that I could see


   Chord diagramFF
An apron full of Mister Harding's flowers
      Chord diagramBb majorBb               Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramC majorC
And I didn't know that he was watching me


Chord diagramBb majorBb               Chord diagramA minorAm            Chord diagramGm7Gm7
Straight away my mother ran to tell him


Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramA minorAm              Chord diagramGm7Gm7
Wondering what he would say or do


Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramA minorAm                      Chord diagramBb majorBb
Mister Harding smiled and said, "She's just a little child


  Chord diagramFF                  Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramFF
I knew that she'd be picking them for you"


Verse:

Chord diagramFF
By the fire, dad would tell me stories


Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramC majorC
One of them concerned a garden too


          Chord diagramFF
Where the lion and the lamb lay down together
    Chord diagramBb majorBb           Chord diagramFF                Chord diagramC majorC
And every lovely fruit and flower grew


    Chord diagramBb majorBb                Chord diagramA minorAm             Chord diagramGm7Gm7
The gardener sent his children in to play there


  Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramA minorAm                Chord diagramGm7Gm7
Rejoicing in the brightness of the day


    Chord diagramFF                Chord diagramA minorAm                 Chord diagramBb majorBb
But when they went exploring and took a fruit to taste


   Chord diagramFF                    Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramFF
He cursed them both and sent them on their way


Bridge:

Chord diagramBb majorBb          Chord diagramA minorAm       Chord diagramG minorGm             Chord diagramFF
Even then I realised in my childish mind


        Chord diagramBb majorBb              Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramFF
That he wasn't a proper gardener of the Mister Harding kind


Verse:

Chord diagramFF
Mister Harding's garden was all taken


   Chord diagramBb majorBb              Chord diagramFF                 Chord diagramC majorC
By lesser men with concrete in their minds


Chord diagramFF
Factory chimneys grew instead of daisies


   Chord diagramBb majorBb               Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC majorC
No butterflies from that assembly line


   Chord diagramBb majorBb           Chord diagramA minorAm            Chord diagramGm7Gm7
My mother faded faster than a flower


Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramA minorAm           Chord diagramGm7Gm7
Dad sat in the darkness and cried


Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramA minorAm             Chord diagramBb majorBb
Mister Harding moves a little slower than before


    Chord diagramFF                  Chord diagramC majorC                     Chord diagramFF
But still he tends the grave where they both lie


Bridge:

    Chord diagramBb majorBb                 Chord diagramA minorAm         Chord diagramG minorGm                  Chord diagramFF
Wherever it is they've gone to, I hope that they will find


  Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramFF             Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramFF
Chord diagramA augmentedA proper sort of garden of the Mister Harding kind


Verse:

    Chord diagramBb majorBb            Chord diagramA minorAm                 Chord diagramGm7Gm7
The foolish woman sometimes feels despairing


Chord diagramBb majorBb                 Chord diagramA minorAm           Chord diagramGm7Gm7
Thinks it seems so very hard to find


    Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramA minorAm              Chord diagramBb majorBb
The child tries to plant a little, everywhere she goes


     Chord diagramFF                   Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramFF
That special love of the Mister Harding kind


Bridge:

Chord diagramBb majorBb               Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG minorGm           Chord diagramFF
Someday when I'm older, maybe I will find


          Chord diagramBb majorBb           Chord diagramFF               Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramFF
That I've grown into a gardener of the Mister Harding kind

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