Giving Tree Uke tab by Cory Kahane

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VERSE 1
     C         C             Em       Em
When we first kissed, I was only eighteen
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You loved to climb so I tried to become an evergreen
      C                C          Em       Em
To shade you from the sun was our routine
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My leaves grew lush. I chased the rush of that sweet 
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dopamine

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VERSE 2
   C          C     Em             Em
In wintertime, you started to want more
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But my branches weren’t as bountiful as they’d been 
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before
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    Expectation turned a gift into a chore
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Knew what to do but long forgot what I had done it for

CHORUS
Dm                         G
Everyone else could read ahead and see
      Am     C        F           C      F       Am
That this is what the ending was always going to be
  Dm              Am                 G               Dm                 
I can’t believe I ever thought that you loved me for me
      Am           G      G     Am
When all you ever wanted was a giving tree

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VERSE 3
   C               C            Em      Em
I worshiped every white lie and excuse
    G                 G            F
Convinced that I was safer with a truce than with the 
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truth
    C              C         Em     Em
I didn’t know the meaning of abuse
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Getting watered just enough so that you could eat 
      F
more fruit

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VERSE 4
    C              C              Em     Em
We fought with ourselves and each other.
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Debated who between us had been the better lover.
C              C         Em     Em
Maybe all that work was just another
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Urge to be that giving tree that I ought to smother.

CHORUS
Dm                         G
Everyone else could read ahead and see
      Am     C        F           C      F       Am
That this is what the ending was always going to be
  Dm              Am                 G               Dm                 
I can’t believe I ever thought that you loved me for me
      Am           G      G     Am
When all you ever wanted was a giving tree

BRIDGE
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F  D    C   Em  Am
Dm G Am Dm
Am G Am

VERSE 5
C      C        Em     Em
     Ooooooooh, I’m just                
    G       G     F     F
    waiting to forget
          C    C     Em        Em
It seems easier than learning to
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forgive your debt

VERSE 6
C      Am               G         F
Was it wisdom when I refused to regret
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Or was that just naivete from having
G               F    Am
barely         lived yet?

OUTRO
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