Chords for Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway on The Caverns Sessions, "Crooked Tree"

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_ _ _ Two trees in the forest, one was crooked, one was straight.
[Abm] Crimson bark and emerald needles growing day by day.
[B] And though they looked so different, they enjoyed the rain the same side by side.
_ [Gb] _ _ _ [B] _ A chickadee told them of a darkness on the land.
[Abm] Spinning blades that came to visit carried by a [B] man.
And every other tree would see them cut down where they stand by and by.
Oh, _ _ _ [Abm] can't you see?
[E] Crooked tree _ [B] won't fit into the [Gb] mail machine.
[Abm] They'll have to grow up _ [E] in three.
Oh, [B] I'd rather be a crooked tree. _ _ _
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Perfect trees were driven down the mountain to the mill.
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Adjournments, toothpicks, and twenty dollar bills.
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It seemed the more the people took, the more they needed still [B] in the end. _ _ _ _
Crooked trees were left there after all the work was done.
[Abm] Now they go for weeks, never witness anyone.
[E] No one left to tell them if they're both right or wrong.
[B] It was smooth. _ _ _ _
[Abm] Oh, can't you see?
[E] Crooked tree _
[B] won't fit into the [Gb] mail machine.
They'll [Abm] have to grow up [E] in three.
[B] Oh, I'd rather be a crooked tree. _ _
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People say I'm different and my way of life seems strange.
[Abm] I took the road less traveled, twist and turns along the way.
[B] Like a crooked tree, I'm growing stronger day by day as the clouds roll by. _ _ _
_ _ A river never wanders why it flows around the bend.
[Abm] A mountain doesn't question how it rose up from the land.
[E] Who am I to wish [B] I wasn't just the way I am?
Who am I?
Oh, [Abm] can't you see?
A crooked [E] tree _
[B] won't fit into the mail [Gb] machine.
[Abm] They'll have to grow up _ [E] in three.
[B] Oh, I'd rather be a [Abm] crooked tree.
_ [E] Crooked tree _ _ [B] won't fit into the mail [Gb] machine.
_ They'll [Abm] have to grow up _ [B]
in three.
Oh, I'd rather be a crooked tree.
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_ [G] _ _ What? _ _ _