Hanging Tree

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There have been many tales
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Tainted by truth twisted by time…
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Some choose to forget
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Yet it still weaves webs in their 
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minds…
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And it seems like she's been here 
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forever
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Her branches as black as the seas
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She's been through it all
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By the luck of the draw
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She became the old hanging tree…

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She asked for nothing
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Except maybe a little rain…
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They used her strength
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To help them steal lives away…
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And she witnessed the sadness and 
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sorrow
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To this day she still doesn't know 
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why
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But her heart broke
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When they came with the rope
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To declare her the old hanging tree…

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Life stranger then fiction
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Can make you want to cry
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Roots could never stop her
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From reaching for the sky…

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Those years have all past
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Lucky for us lucky for her…
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Now, children play at her feet
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And in her arms she cradles birds…
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And it seems like she's been here 
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forever
      Dm                      Am
Her branches as black as the seas
       Am             E
She's been through it all
        C            G
By the luck of the draw
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She became the old hanging tree…

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Yes somewhere in the back of her 
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mind is the time
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she was known as the old hanging 
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tree...