Gene Parsons - I Must Be a Tree

      
 
 From RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM Thu May 8 10:25:06 1997
 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:02:47 GMT
 From: RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM
 To: guitar@olga.net
 Subject: I Must Be A Tree Gene Parsons Chords/Words
 
 thanks to Roy J for the words
 please post corrections
 
 Gene Parsons I Must Be A Tree by Gene Parsons/Gib Guilbeau
 
 Clarence White guitar
 
 E                              F#       
 You are nothing but a piece of driftwood
     A              B           E  
 But I can feel the pain and misery
                                        F#    
 And in this rut I'm stuck with roots a-pining
     A                B            E  
 But I'm not a man so I must be a tree
 E                                    
 I can't be real, yes I must be a tree
   F#m                  B                   E         
 I bloom my spring then comes the fall that withers me
 E                                                    
 And through this cold I'm dormant 'til you call on me
       F#m              D           E   
 That's why I know that I must be a tree
 E                                  F#    
 Every month you mate our need gets bigger
    A                   B             E   
 My heart has hardened like a knot of wood
 E                                    F#     
 And things won't be so shady for you anymore
      A                 B                      E         
 Someday this tree will branch out towards the other wood
 E                                   
 I can't be real, no I must be a tree
   F#m                  B                   E         
 I bloom my spring then comes the fall that withers me
 E                                                    
 And through this cold I'm dormant 'til you call on me
        F#m             D           E   
 That's why I know that I must be a tree
 
 From The Kindling LP
 Warner Brothers Records