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I Was An Oak Tree by Jonathan Byrd
I Was An Oak Tree
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:4th fret
[Intro]
F C G Am G
F C G Am G
F C G Am G F G
[Verse 1]
F
I was an oak tree.
C G F
I took a thousand years to grow,
C G
and I've seen kingdoms come and go.
F C G Am G
I've seen the losers turn to lords and back again.
F C G Am G
I held the rebels when they hung them from my limbs.
F C G
When men of fortune cast their futures on the sea,
Am G F G
that's when they came for me.
[Verse 2]
F
And I was a slave ship,
C G F
under the standard of the cross,
C G
a hallelujah holocaust.
F C G Am G
And half were dead before we reached the other shore,
F C G Am G
and the captain never saw the coming storm
F C G
that swept around the cape and took us by surprise,
Am G F G
and only eight survived.
[Verse 3]
F C G F
I was a camp fire, a pile of driftwood in the sand.
C G
The only comfort in this land.
F C G Am G
8 hungry sailors roasted acorns that they found,
F C G Am G
and left me burning as they stumbled towards the sound
F C G
of a church bell ringing out above the ocean's wind,
Am G F G
and I was born again.
[Verse 4]
F C G F
And I am an oak tree, out along the wild cape fear,
C G
and there is talk of freedom here.
F C G Am G
Where is the kingdom that was here before I came,
F C G Am G
where have the people gone who only left their names.
F C G
A revolution's just a circle after all,
Am G F G
and every kingdom falls.
F C G F
I am an oak tree, if it takes a thousand years to grow,
C G F
I'll see kingdoms come and go,
C G
I'll see kingdoms come and go.
[Outro]
F C G Am G
F C G Am G
F C G Am G F G
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