The Yew Tree - Battlefield Band Chords
Chords: Dm, G, C, F, Bb, Guitar, Em, D, A, Bm
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Genre: celtic, folk, traditional
The Yew Tree (Battlefield Band)
Keyboard
Dm
A mile frae Pentcaitland, on the road to the sea
Stands a yew tree a thousand years old
And the old women swear by the grey o' their hair
That it knows what the future will hold
G C Dm
For the shadows of Scotland stand round it
C G
'Mid the kail and the corn and the kye
F C
All the hopes and the fears of a thousand long years
Dm C Bb
Under the Lothian sky
C
My bonnie yew tree
Dm
Tell me what did you see
Guitar
Em D C Em
Did you look through the haze o' the lang summer days
C D Em
Tae the South and the far English border
Em D C Em
A' the bonnets o' steel on Flodden's far field
C D Em
Did they march by your side in good order
A D Em
Did you ask them the price o' their glory
D A
When you heard the great slaughter begin
G D Bm
For the dust o' their bones would rise up from the stones
Em D Em
To bring tears to the eyes o' the wind
D
My bonnie yew tree
Em C Em
Tell me what did you see
Em D C Em
Not once did you speak for the poor and the weak
C D Em
When the moss-troopers lay in your shade
Em D C Em
To count out the plunder and hide frae the thunder
C D Em
And share out the spoils o' their raid
A D Em
But you saw the smiles o' the gentry
D A
And the laughter of lords at their gains
G D
When the poor hunt the poor across mountain and moor
Em D Em
The rich man can keep them in chains
D
My bonnie yew tree
Em C Em
Tell me what did you see
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