Chords for Band of Heathens "Hanging Tree"

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_ _ _ _ I [Gm] can hear mama singing the hanging [F] [C] tree. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Sound like someone singing [G] harmony. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] And me and my brother we don't make a [C] beat.
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[Bb] We go down slow to [F] the hanging [G]
tree.
_ _ _ _ _ The hanging tree is down [F] by the [C] river's _ edge.
_ _ _ _ [Cm] We come upstream and [G] peek over the _ ledge.
_ _ _ And mama's got a rope and a kitchen [Bb] knife.
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_ _ [Bb] The harmony [F] singer is the [G] preacher's wife. _ _ _ _ _
_ Mama put a Bible in her right [C] hand
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[Bb] asked her if [F] she'd been seeing [G] her man.
_ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ Well, me and my brother [C] don't hear no more. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Right then the rain [F] began [G] to pour. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ It was an hour past dark when she came [C] back home. _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] We never saw papa [F] around here [G] no more.
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[G] _ _ _ Mama took to sitting by the hanging [C] tree. _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] But there ain't nobody [F] singing [G] harmony.
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Preacher's wife, she don't [C] leave his side. _
_ _ _ And [Eb] we ain't got papa [C] to tell [G] no hide. _ _ _
_ _ _ My older brother, he took his [C] life. _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] And I took [Bbm] to peeping on [F] the [G] preacher's wife.
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_ _ _ _ _ I _ _ left my mama when I was [C]
16, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] strung up in the [F] limbs of the hanging [G] tree.
_ I left my mama when I was 16,
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