Blackmore's Night - Hanging Tree

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There have bee

        
n many tales
            
Tainted by tru

            
th twisted by 

 
time…
           
Some choose to

     
 forget
             
Yet it still w

            
eaves webs in 

       
their minds…
             
And it seems l

              
ike she's been

         
 here forever
            
Her branches a

              
s black as the

  
 seas
            
She's been thr

        
ough it all
             
By the luck of

       
 the draw
             
She became the

             
 old hanging t

 
ree…


           
She asked for 

    
nothing 
          
Except maybe a

         
 little rain…
           
They used her 

    
strength
             
To help them s

           
teal lives awa

 
y…
             
And she witnes

              
sed the sadnes

        
s and sorrow
            
To this day sh

              
e still doesn'

          
t know why 
            
But her heart 

  
broke
             
When they came

            
 with the rope
             
To declare her

             
 the old hangi

      
ng tree…
 

             
Life stranger 

      
then fiction
             
Can make you w

         
ant to cry
            
Roots could ne

      
ver stop her
             
From reaching 

            
for the sky…


           
Those years ha

        
ve all past
           
Lucky for us l

         
ucky for her…
            
Now, children 

            
play at her fe

et
            
And in her arm

             
s she cradles 

 
birds…
             
And it seems l

              
ike she's been

         
 here forever
            
Her branches a

              
s black as the

  
 seas
            
She's been thr

        
ough it all
             
By the luck of

       
 the draw
             
She became the

             
 old hanging t

 
ree…


            
Yes somewhere 

             
in the back of

             
 her mind is t

    
he time
            
she was known 

           
as the old han

       
ging tree...