* = one strum

[Verse 1]
Am*          N.C.
    Are you, are you comin' to the tree?
           
Where they str

           
ung up a man, 

     
they say murde

red three
           
Strange things

           
 did happen he

       
re, no strange

r would it be
           
If we met up a

         
t midnight in 

            
the hangin' tr

ee

[Verse 2]
           
Are you, are y

   
ou comin' to t

he tree?
            
Where the dead

            
 man called ou

   
t for his love

 to flee
            
Strange things

            
 did happen he

       
re, no strange

r would it be
            
If we met up a

          
t midnight in 

            
the hangin' tr

ee

[Verse 3]
           
Are you, are y

   
ou comin' to t

he tree?
            
Where I told y

            
ou to run so w


e'd both be fr

ee
            
Strange things

            
 did happen he

       
re, no strange

r would it be
            
If we met up a

          
t midnight in 

            
the hangin' tr

ee

[Verse 4]
          
Are you, are y

  
ou comin' to t

he tree?
           
Wear a necklac

        
e of rope side

 by side with 

me
           
Strange things

           
 did happen he

       
re, no strange

r would it be
      Am*       N.C.
If we met up at midnight in the hangin' tree