C C/B Em Dm C
 
[Interlude]
C F Fm A# C Cm Bdim G G7
 
[Verse 1]
C                    F            Fm        A#         C
Now that there are green sprouts pushing through dead leaves,
     F          C       G
and fat yellow jackets float on the breeze,
C                    F            Fm A#  C
the waves kiss the shore and the air is warm,
     F               C      F                 C
but birch trees are falling now that you are gone
 
[Chorus]
F        Fm          A#        C
Once we walked the crumbling cliffs
F          Fm     A#   C
where the birch trees lean
F       Fm         A#     C
Once I kissed your apple lips
F      C        G
high above the sea
 
[Interlude]
C F Fm A# C Cm Bdim G
 
[Verse 2]
   C           F            Fm    A#     C
A year ago it was when the last clover grew
F               C          G
Under creaking birch trees I would wait for you
C                 F           Fm        A#      C
We kissed in the salt air between the leaning trees,
F               C       F           C
white slender branches bent to the sea
 
[Chorus]
F        Fm          A#        C
Once we walked the crumbling cliffs
F          Fm     A#   C
where the birch trees lean
F        Fm        A#     C
who will kiss your apple lips
F          C     G
under the salty sea