Apple Tree Chords

by Erykah Badu
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Difficulty: beginner
Capo: 3rd fret
Author elizabethfine [a] 50.
1 contributor total, last edit on Dec 7, 2016

Chords

Gm
Cm

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(Both Cm and Gm are played barred on the 3rd fret.)
 
[Verse 1]
Gm
It was a stormy night
Cm
You know the kind where the lightening strike
Gm                                    Cm
and i was hanging out with some of my artsy friends
oo wee oo wee oo weeeeeeee
Gm
The night was long the night went on
Cm
people coolin' out until the break of dawn
Gm                                 Cm
incense was burnin' so I'm feelin right, aight.
 
[Bridge]
Gm
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
Cm
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
Gm
I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not
Cm
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
Gm
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
Cm
and that's why I do what I do
Gm
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Cm
doo wee doo wee do wee
 
[Hook]
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
You just don't want to be down
 
[Verse 2]
Gm
I have a ho
Cm
and I take it everywhere I go
Gm
Cause I'm planting seeds
                            Cm
so I reaps What I sow, ya know, ya know
Gm
Oh on & on & on & on
Cm
my cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone
Gm
I can't control the soul flowin' in me
Cm
ooh wee
 
[Bridge]
Gm
See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
Cm
My Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
Gm
I don't go 'round trying to be what I'm not
Cm
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
Gm
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
Cm
and that's why I do what I do
Gm
My soul flies free like a willow tree
Cm
doo wee doo wee do wee
 
[Hook]
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
You don't want to pick from my apple tree
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
Then you don't want to pick from my apple tree
Gm
And if you don't want to be down with me
Cm
You just don't want to be down
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Apple Tree – Erykah Badu
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3 comments
martin_dk
This tab only contain two chords, which are wrong, the whole way through the song. therefore i rate this tab with only 1 star
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Gnomes.in.poems
Play it with the capo on the 6th and you don't have to barre anything.
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oniayanna
what key is this in?
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