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{title: Oak & Ash & Thorn}
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{composer: The Longest Johns}
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{c: Intro: Am}
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Of [Am]all the trees that grow so fair, old England to adorn,
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[FM7/C]Greater are none beneath the sun than [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
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{soc}
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Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs,
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All on a midsummer's [Em]morn.
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[FM7/C]Surely we'll sing of no little thing
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In [G]Oak, and Ash, and [Am]Thorn.
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{eoc}
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[Am]Yew that is old, in churchyard mould, he breedeth a mighty bow
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Alder for shoes do wise men choose, and Beech for cups also
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But when you have killed, and your bowl it is filled, and your shoes are clean outworn
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[FM7/C]Back you must speed for all that you need to [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn
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{soc}
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Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs,
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All on a midsummer's [Em]morn.
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[FM7/C]Surely we sing of no little thing
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In [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
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{eoc}
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{c: Repeat chorus, playing Am on last "Thorn"}
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[Am]Elm, she hates mankind and waits, til every gust be laid,
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To [FM7/C]drop a limb on the head of him that [G]anyway trusts her shade,
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But [Am]whether a lad be sober or sad, or mellow with ale from the horn,
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He'll [FM7/C]take no wrong when he lyeth along 'neath [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn
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{soc}
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Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs,
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All on a midsummer's [Em]morn.
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[FM7/C]Surely we sing of no little thing
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In [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
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{eoc}
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{c: Repeat chorus, playing Am on last "Thorn"}
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Oh, [Am]do not tell the priest our plight, for he would call it a sin,
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But [Am]we've been out in the woods all night, a-conjuring summer in,
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We [Am]bring you good news by word of mouth, good news for cattle and corn
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[Am]Sure as the sun come up from the south, by Oak, and Ash, and [D]Thorn.
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{soc}
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Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs,
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All on a midsummer's [Em]morn.
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[FM7/C]Surely we sing of no little thing
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In [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
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{eoc}
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{c: Play x4 total, playing Am on very last "Thorn"}
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{c: In DADGAD, the chords are fingered as follows}
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{c: Am Em F G D}
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{c: 0 0 0 0 0}
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{c: 0 0 0 0 0}
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{c: 2 0 0 0 2}
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{c: 2 2 0 0 4}
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{c: 0 2 3 5 0}
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{c: X 2 3 5 0}
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