Chords for MICHAEL FRANKS 🎧 The Idea of a Tree

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_ [F#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ [D#] _
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_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D#] _ _
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_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ [C#] _
_ I [B] walk out in the [D#] woods and I try to [B] step [F#m] loudly, I lie [C#m] on my [C#] back and stare [B] at a little
cloud that [E] sails [D#] gracefully, _
_ [F#] _ _ like a white [D#m] _ [G#]
fleur-de [C#m]-lis.
_ I'm surrounded, [D#] too [B] beautiful to say, then [C#m] in full throat the [F#m] thrush just blows me [C#m] away
with a song so [D#] pristine, [B] _ _ _ [E] much like [D#] Leonard _
_ [F#] Bernstein.
[Bm] _ _ _ [E] _
Ash, [B] _ _ white pine [C#m] and hemlock [Bm] make my canopy, [E] _ _
[D] _ _ [B] _ perfect [E] space just in case there [Bm] are raindrops.
_ _ [E] _
Shade to [Bm] cool the [E] sun when it shines _ [Bm] _ _ equatorially, [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ an invention [D] I can't fail to [A] mention, the
idea [B] of a tree _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#m] seems [E] miraculous to [B] me, _
[F#m] _ the _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [A] idea of a tree [B] _ _
[A] seems _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [A] _ miraculous to [B] me. _
[F#] _ _ I heard [B] about a banyan in India somewhere [A] that's so huge one whole [C#] village collects
itself there completely [E] under its [B] arms, _
_ _ [E] _ to be safe [F#m] _
from all [A] harm.
He must be some [G#m] creator or maybe he's a she, [C#m] but who cares, his [F#m] creation is something
to see perfect [E] in every detail, [A] _ _
_ _ _ perfect [C#] in every _ [Bm] detail.
_ _ [E] _
Elm, _ [B] _ [Bm] oak and [C#m] _
magnolia [Bm] make my canopy, [E] _ _
_ [B] _ _ perfect [E] space just in case there [Bm] are raindrops.
_ _ [E] _
Shade to cool [Bm] the sun [E] _ when it shines [Bm] _ _ _ equatorially, [E] _ _
_ _ _ an invention [D] I can't fail to mention, [A] the
idea [B] of a tree _ _ [A] _ seems _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [A] _ miraculous to [B] me, _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [A] the idea of a tree [B] _ _
_ [F#m] seems _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ miraculous to [B] me. _
[F#] _ Ba da dee ba da da [B] ba ba da dee ya doo dee [F#] ya doo dee ya ba ba dee [F#m] ba da wa, [F#] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ the [A] idea of a tree. _ _
_ Ba da dee ba da da ba ba da dee ya doo dee ya doo [F#] dee ya ba ba dee ba da [F#m] wa, _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ the idea of a tree.
[B] _ _
_ [C#m] Ba da dee ba da da [D#] ba ba da dee ya doo [A] dee ya doo [F#] dee ya [B] ba ba dee ba [A] da wa, _ _ _ _ [F#] _
the [A] idea of a tree.
[E] _ _
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _
The [E] idea of a tree.
[B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
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[G#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
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_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _
[B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _