Holly Tree chords by Dar Williams

Chords with lyrics

Dar Williams - Holly Tree


INTRO: A minorAm

               FF
When the robin builds in the holly tree
    A minorAm            FF
It's a sign of life, its gentle victory
    C majorC        DmDm
Well, today as I set to go
    C majorC         FF
I saw a nest in a tree hollow


  A minorAm       FF
Oh Emily, you're a brave girl
     A minorAm         FF
With your husband gone to the other world
    C majorC           DmDm
Sing a song while I light the fire
     C majorC           FF
We'll be joined by a spiritual choir

Here's the tansy and the chamomile
 DmDm
A augmentedA tea for you to drink
FF
As the pain increases, oh
  DmDm
You only have to think
    E minorEm
About a baby, we'll save the baby


      A minorAm         FF
I placed a holly sprig by the doctor's door
    A minorAm           FF
He has done this well and many times before
     C majorC          DmDm
He'll be careful which way he goes
       C majorC         FF
But he's been kind to us farm widows


  A minorAm           FF
And this I heard, just the other day
     A minorAm          FF
That they came to buy, and you chose to stay
    C majorC              DmDm
Soon a child will help you reap and sow
    C majorC        FF
May he cast a long shadow

But you say the trials are coming
     DmDm
You have felt the gathering forces
    FF
And the galloping you hear
   DmDm
Is of one too many horses


  FF
But rest your head my darling girl
   DmDm
There won't be any danger
FF
Any person ever loved
  DmDm
An infant in a manger
     E minorEm
Saves the baby, save the baby


INSTRUMENTAL: A minorAm FF A minorAm FF C majorC DmDm C majorC FF A minorAm


                 FF
Now the pastor comes, shakes the farmer's hand
      A minorAm            FF
Says, ?The earth will bear, like the promised land
     C majorC            DmDm
You have heard the stories down below
        C majorC          FF   DmDm A minorAm C majorC
But nature will bless this farm hollow.?


    FF
Now the farmer's wife shudders
     DmDm
Pulls the shawl up to her shoulder
FF
Every time she nears the hearth
  DmDm
She feels a little colder
      E minorEm
Where's the baby? There was a baby