Battlefield Band – The Yew Tree chords

The Yew Tree   (Battlefield Band)


Keyboard 

DmA mile frae Pentcaitland, on the road to the sea
Stands a yew tree a thousand years old
And the old women swear by the grey o' their hair
That it knows what the future will hold
        G          C              DmFor the shadows of Scotland stand round it
         C                         G'Mid the kail and the corn and the kye
        F                        CAll the hopes and the fears of a thousand long years
Dm        C       BbUnder the Lothian sky
              CMy bonnie yew tree
                     DmTell me what did you see

Guitar

        Em               D           C           EmDid you look through the haze o' the lang summer days
        C             D           EmTae the South and the far English border
       Em         D        C             EmA' the bonnets o' steel on Flodden's far field
         C             D            EmDid they march by your side in good order
        A            D              EmDid you ask them the price o' their glory
         D                           AWhen you heard the great slaughter begin
        G                              D           Bm    For the dust o' their bones would rise up from the stones
         Em           D           EmTo bring tears to the eyes o' the wind
              DMy bonnie yew tree
                     Em     C    Em    Tell me what did you see
 
    Em           D             C            EmNot once did you speak for the poor and the weak
         C             D           EmWhen the moss-troopers lay in your shade
   Em            D           C             EmTo count out the plunder and hide frae the thunder
    C             D               EmAnd share out the spoils o' their raid
    A           D             EmBut you saw the smiles o' the gentry
        D                          AAnd the laughter of lords at their gains
         G                         D             When the poor hunt the poor across mountain and moor
    Em           D            EmThe rich man can keep them in chains
              DMy bonnie yew tree 
                     Em     C   Em Tell me what did you see

        Em            D         C            EmDid you no' think tae tell when John Knox himsel'
         C          D            EmPreached under your branches sae black
      Em           D              C           EmTo the poor common folk who would lift up the yoke
       C           D                  EmO' the bishops and priests frae their backs
    A            D          EmBut you knew the bargain he sold them
    D                    AAnd freedom was only one part
        G                          D          Bm  For the price o' their souls was a gospel sae cold
N.C.It would freeze up the joy in their hearts
              DMy bonnie yew tree 
                     Em      C   EmTell me what did you see


   Solo

            Am  D   G   Em  

            Am  D   G   Em

            F   Em  F   Em

            F   G   A


Em                           And I thought as I stood and laid hands on your wood
    
That it might be a kindness to fell you
            
One kiss o' the axe and you're freed frae the racks
       C          D              EmO' the sad bloody tales that men tell you

Slowed down
      A             D             EmBut a wee bird flew out from your branches
    D                   AAnd sang out as never before
        G                        D              Bm  And the words o' the song were a thousand years long
       Em             D             EmAnd to learn them's a long thousand more
              DMy bonnie yew tree 
                     EmTell me what CAN you see



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