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A Proper Sort Of Gardener by June Tabor
A Proper Sort Of Gardener
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
F C Bb Dm Bb Dm Gm
[Verse]
F
Once upon a time I found a garden
Bb F C
Picked the brightest things that I could see
F
An apron full of Mister Harding's flowers
Bb F C
And I didn't know that he was watching me
Bb Am Gm7
Straight away my mother ran to tell him
Bb Am Gm7
Wondering what he would say or do
F Am Bb
Mister Harding smiled and said, "She's just a little child
F C F
I knew that she'd be picking them for you"
[Verse]
F
By the fire, dad would tell me stories
Bb F C
One of them concerned a garden too
F
Where the lion and the lamb lay down together
Bb F C
And every lovely fruit and flower grew
Bb Am Gm7
The gardener sent his children in to play there
Bb Am Gm7
Rejoicing in the brightness of the day
F Am Bb
But when they went exploring and took a fruit to taste
F C F
He cursed them both and sent them on their way
[Bridge]
Bb Am Gm F
Even then I realised in my childish mind
Bb F C F C Bb F
That he wasn't a proper gardener of the Mister Harding kind
[Verse]
F
Mister Harding's garden was all taken
Bb F C
By lesser men with concrete in their minds
F
Factory chimneys grew instead of daisies
Bb F C
No butterflies from that assembly line
Bb Am Gm7
My mother faded faster than a flower
Bb Am Gm7
Dad sat in the darkness and cried
F Am Bb
Mister Harding moves a little slower than before
F C F
But still he tends the grave where they both lie
[Bridge]
Bb Am Gm F
Wherever it is they've gone to, I hope that they will find
Bb F C F C Bb F
A proper sort of garden of the Mister Harding kind
[Verse]
Bb Am Gm7
The foolish woman sometimes feels despairing
Bb Am Gm7
Thinks it seems so very hard to find
F Am Bb
The child tries to plant a little, everywhere she goes
F C F
That special love of the Mister Harding kind
[Bridge]
Bb Am Gm F
Someday when I'm older, maybe I will find
Bb F C F C Bb F
That I've grown into a gardener of the Mister Harding kind
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