The Two Trees Ukulele Chords

** Fingerpicking style **
Strike the full chords each time a letter is written down.
For the transition to the next letter, strike just chord 4.
(The only exception is when you read the two same letters written down,
just strike the chords with no transitions thens).
The Gs at the end of verses should be played slightly before the tempo.
At the end of each quatrain, you could play G, then strike juste cord 4 one fret higher
before coming back to the third one quicly enabling you to passe to the next chord.
 
Enjoy that medieval sounding peace of wisdowm! :)
 
 
[Intro]
Asus2 A5 (x3)
Am A5
F G Am F G Dm C F F
Am F G G Am F G G
Dm C F F
 
[Verse]
  C      Am      G         C
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
    F    C           G   Am
The holy tree is growing there;
     Am      F    G        C
From joy the holy branches start,
    F       C         G            Am
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
    C        Am      G      C
The changing colours of its fruit
     F           C          G     Am
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
    Am  F         G      C
The surety of its hidden root
    F       C     G      Am
Has planted quiet in the night;
    F       C      G     Am
The shaking of its leafy head
    F         C           G   Am
Has given the waves their melody,
    F       C        G     Am
And made my lips and music wed,
F           C      G        Am
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
 
[Bridge]
F G
 
[Verse]
C         Am      G      C
There the Loves a circle go,
    F       C         G   Am
The flaming circle of our days,
Am      F       G      C
Gyring, spiring to and fro
   F           C        G     Am
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
  F         C        G      Am
Remembering all that shaken hair
    F       C         G    Am
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
      F         C       G      Am
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
  F      C       G         Am
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
 
 
[Bridge]
G G G Dm C F F
Am F G G
Dm C F F
 
 
[Verse]
C       Am          G      C
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
    F       C          G      Am
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Am        F        G            C
Lift up before us     when they pass,
   F    C      G      Am
Or only gaze a little while;
    F       C     G     Am
For there a fatal image grows
F        C      G       Am
That the stormy night receives,
F          C      G          Am
Roots half hidden under the snows,
F      C          G         Am
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
    Am         F       G     C
For all things turn to barrenness
F          C         G      Am
In the dim glass the demons hold,
    Am       F     G    C
The glass of outer weariness,
F         C            G        Am
Made when God slept in times of old.
F                  C      G         Am
There, through the broken branches, go
    F      C    C       Am
The ravens of unresting thought;
F       C       G      Am
Flying, crying, to and fro,
F     Cl       G      Am
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
   F         C         G         Am
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
    F           C      G       Am
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
    F      C         G     Am
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
F       C           G      Am
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
 
 
[Bridge]
Am F G G
Am F G G
Am F G G
Dm C F F
 
 
[Verse]
  C      Am      G         C
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
    F    C           G   Am
The holy tree is growing there;
     Am      F    G        C
From joy the holy branches start,
    F       C         G        Am
And all the trembling branches bear.
  F         C        G      Am
Remembering all that shaken hair
    F       C         G    Am
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
      F         C       G      Am
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
  F      C       G         Am
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
 
 
[Outro]
Am F G C
F C G Am
Am F G C
F C G Am (x5)
 
 
[After William Butler Yeats, "The Two Trees"]
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