If A Tree Falls Chords by Bruce Cockburn

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_ Rainforests, [Em] mist and mystery, _ [D]
teetering green, _ _ _ _ [G] green rain, facing the bottom, _ [Em] climate control
center for the world, [D]
ancient cord coexistence hacked by parasitic green head scam, [G] _
_ _ [Em] star
wax to Amazonas, Costa [D] Rica to mean GBC hills, cortez rhythm of fallen timber, _ [G]
what kind
of currency grows in these [Em] new deserts, these brand new flood [D] plains?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] If the tree _ [Em] falls in the forest, _ [D] is anybody here?
_ _ _ _ _ If the tree [G] _ [Em] falls in the forest, _ [D] is anybody here? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] Anybody here?
[G] The forest falls.
[D] Cops _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] move on, _ [D] cops move on, take out trees, take out wildlife at a rate of the species
every single [G] day, _ [Em] take out people who have lived here for a hundred [D] thousand years, inject
a billion burgers worth of _ grain _ [G] eaters, [Em] _ _ methane [D]
dispensers, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ through [Em] thinning ozone,
waves [D] fall on rippled earth, gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars, [G] speak of [Em] a drowning,
_ this, [D] this is something other, Disney monster eats dark holes in the spirit world, [G] where
wild things have to go, _ [Em] _ disappear, _ [D]
forever.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] If the tree _ [Em] falls in the forest, is [D] anybody here?
_ _ _ _ _ If the tree [G] _ [Em] falls in the forest, is [D] anybody here?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Em] Anybody here?
The [D] forest falls. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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