Chords for Four Tall Trees (Live)

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Four tall [C] trees, growing in a [Bb] square, Twenty [F] feet apart and [Gm] a hundred in the air.
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_ _ _ _ _ Mary went out hunting [C] in the woods of [Cm] Keweenaw, The [G] wilds of Upper [Eb] Michigan, a long [D] way from the law.
[A] And as the night grew closer, [C] her feet began to [Bb] tire,
She set [Am] her lean to shelter and she set her [D] cooking fire
Between four tall trees, [Cm] growing in a [Bb] square, Twenty [F] feet apart [Dm] and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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_ _ [D] And as her stew was boiling, she heard [C] a rushing sound,
As [Dm] if the winds were running hard [D] far above the ground.
_ Winds told [Gm] of in legends no [Cm] one wished to know,
_ [F] Memory came unbidden of the tale [D] of Wendigo in the four tall trees,
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Growing in a [Bb] square, twenty [F] feet apart and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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_ _ _ _ _ The Chippewa told white men that [Bb] many years ago,
A [Dm] renegade turned [Eb] cannibal [D] became the Wendigo.
_ But [Gm] Chippewa told Metis a [C] very different [Cm] tale,
[G] Of sorcery mistaken that turns [D] red faces pale in the four [Gm] tall trees,
[C] Growing in a square, [F] twenty feet [D] apart and a hundred in the air.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] In centuries forgotten, the [G] ancient people found,
The [F] uses of pure [Eb] copper and built [D] the sacred mound.
_ They [Gm] hammered copper vessels, they hammered copper [Bb] knives,
They [Dm] offered to the spirits their corn and [D] blood and lives,
In the four tall [G] trees, growing in a square, [F] Twenty feet apart [Dm] and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] In one hard winter's [G] hunger, they made a sacrifice,
[Bb] To spirits [F] of the forest, [Eb] of wind and fire and [Gm] ice,
They sacrificed the prisoner, his blood spilled [Cm] on the corn.
_ [Bb] And when they [F] casted in the fire, the [D] Wendigo was born in the four tall [C] trees,
Growing in a square, [F] twenty feet apart [Dm] and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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They called the beast Windwalker, [Cm] they called it Voice of Flame,
It [F] calls men to destruction, [Ebm] it [D] calls each one by name. _
It stalks [Gm] the deepest forest, it walks the [Cm] lightest breeze,
[Bb] And when it [F] lacks the soul's amenities, [D] the moss from trees,
Like the four tall trees, [C] growing in a [G] square, Twenty feet apart [Dm] and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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_ [D] It took the Chippewa hunters, [C] the Métis trappers [Bb] too,
And left [Dm] scorched footprints in the snow, [D] such as no man knew.
_ For this they [Gm] left the forest, they [G] left the sacred [Bb] mound,
They left the knives and [D] vessels there, abandoned on the ground,
In the four tall [G] trees, growing in a [Bb] square, Twenty [F] feet apart and a hundred [D] in the air.
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[Gm] _ _ [D] _ As Mary sat remembering, [C] and banked the fire [Bb] high,
From out [F] the distant forest, there [D] came an eerie cry.
_ She looked [Gm] up to the heavens, and something [Cm] there looked down, _ _ _ _
A [F] silhouette against the stars, one foot on [D] every crown,
Of the four tall [Cm] trees, growing in a square, [F] Twenty feet [A] apart and a hundred in [Gm] the air.
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_ Its outline was not [G] human, nor any beast's men know,
And [Dm] where its bulging head [Eb] looked down, she saw two [D] embers glow.
_ It stood up on the treetops, [G] its wings stretched out beside,
[Bb] They faded [F] out to nothing, twelve [Am] yards to [D] either side,
Of the four tall [G] trees, growing in a [Bb] square, [F] Twenty feet apart and a hundred in the [Am] air. _ _
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_ [D] Its voice was rushing [C] windsong, its voice was roaring flame,
[Bb] It whispered half-held promises, it [D] clearly called her name.
_ It [Gm] promised, come and fly with [Cm] me, and we will soar away,
[Bb] And fly [F] above this dreary [D] world forever and a day,
From these four [G] tall trees, [Cm] growing in a [Bb] square, Twenty [F] feet apart and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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[D] _ _ _ Mary grasped [C] the nearest tree, and gripped the nearest [Bb] stone,
She cried, [F] be gone you liar, and [D] leave me here alone.
_ I am no lonely trapper, [G] nor wandering clanless [Cm] brave,
_ _ _ _ But I [F] have friends and [Eb] family here, and a life that [D] I would save,
In these four tall trees, [C] growing in a [Bb] square, [F] Twenty feet [Dm] apart and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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[D] By word and [G] will they battled, and neither would give [Bb] way,
Until [F] the moon rose up the sky and [D] washed it pale as day.
The wind it [Gm] go gave over, and turned [Cm] away again, _ _
_ _ [Bb] Let go the [F] trees and soared away, straight [D] against the wind,
In these four tall [C] trees, growing in a [Bb] square, [F] Twenty feet apart [Dm] and a hundred [Gm] in the air.
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_ Perhaps it wasn't hungry, [C] [Cm] perhaps her will was [Bb] strong,
Perhaps [F] the ties of earth and kin had [D] bound her well and long,
She could [G] not say what held her against wind [C]-walkers call. _
[Cm] _ _ _ But she [F] fed the fire until the dawn, and did not [D] sleep at all,
In these four tall [C] trees, growing in a [Bb] square, [F] Twenty feet apart and a hundred in [D] the air.
Four tall trees, [Cm] growing in a [Bb] square, Twenty [F] feet apart and a [Gm] hundred in the air.
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