The Hanging Tree Chords by Frankie Laine

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[Eb] _ _ _ I came to town to search for gold, [Bb] and I brought with me a memory,
_ [Fm] and I seemed to hear [Gm] the night wind cry, [Cm] go hang your dreams [Eb] on the hanging tree,
[Ab] your dreams of love [Eb] that could never be, _ _ [Bb] hang your faded dreams on the hanging tree.
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I searched for gold, and I found my gold, and I found a girl [Bb] who loved as me,
[Fm] and I wished that I [Gm] could love her too, [Ab] but I'd left my heart on the hanging tree,
I'd left my heart [Eb] with a memory, _ _ [Bb] _ and a faded dream on [Eb] the hanging tree.
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ Now there were men who craved my gold, and they meant to take [Bbm] my gold from me,
[Fm] when a man is gone [Gm] he needs no gold, [Ab] so they carried me [Eb] to the hanging tree,
[Ab] to join my [Eb] dreams and a memory, _ _ yes [Bb] they carried me to the hanging [Eb] tree,
to really live you almost die, it happened [Bb] just that way with me,
[Fm] _ the gold [Gm] and they set me free, [Ab] and I walked away [Eb] from the hanging tree,
[Ab] I walked away [Eb] from the hanging tree, _ _ [Bb] and my own true love, oh yes [Eb] she walked with me,
that's when [Ab] I knew that [Gm] the hanging tree was [Ab] a tree of life, new [Eb] life for me,
a [Ab] tree of hope, new [Eb] hope for [Ab] me, a tree of [Eb] love, new love for me, the hanging tree,
[Ab] the [F] hanging tree, [Bb] [Eb] the hanging tree. _
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