Hanging Tree Lyrics

Song	Hanging Tree
Artist	Desmond Dekker
Album	Rudy Got Soul: The Early Beverley's Sessions 1963-1968
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	Hanging Tree ;)
	There have been many tales
	Tainted by truth twisted by time…
	Some choose to forget
	Yet it still
	Weaves webs in their minds…
	And it seems like she's been here forever
	Her branches as black as the seas
	She's been through it all
	By the luck of the draw
	She became the old hanging tree…
	She asked for nothing
	Except maybe
	A little rain…
	They used her strength
	To help them steal lives away…
	And she witnessed the sadness and sorrow
	To this day she still doesn't know why
	But her heart broke
	When they came with the rope
	To declare her the old hanging tree…
	Life stranger then fiction
	Can make you want to cry
	Roots could never stop her
	From reaching for the sky…
	Life stranger then fiction
	Can make you want to cry
	Roots could never stop her
	From reaching for the sky…
	Those years have all past
	Lucky for us lucky for her…
	Now, children play at her feet
	And in her arms she cradles birds…
	And it seems she's been here forever
	These days are the best that she's seen
	But somewhere in the back
	Of her mind
	Is the time
	She was known as the old hanging tree…

	Hanging Tree
	There have been many tales
	Tainted by truth twisted by time
	Some choose to forget
	Yet it still
	Weaves webs in their minds
	And it seems like she' s been here forever
	Her branches as black as the seas
	She' s been through it all
	By the luck of the draw
	She became the old hanging tree
	She asked for nothing
	Except maybe
	A little rain
	They used her strength
	To help them steal lives away
	And she witnessed the sadness and sorrow
	To this day she still doesn' t know why
	But her heart broke
	When they came with the rope
	To declare her the old hanging tree
	Life stranger then fiction
	Can make you want to cry
	Roots could never stop her
	From reaching for the sky
	Life stranger then fiction
	Can make you want to cry
	Roots could never stop her
	From reaching for the sky
	Those years have all past
	Lucky for us lucky for her
	Now, children play at her feet
	And in her arms she cradles birds
	And it seems she' s been here forever
	These days are the best that she' s seen
	But somewhere in the back
	Of her mind
	Is the time
	She was known as the old hanging tree

	Hanging Tree
	There have been many tales
	Tainted by truth twisted by time
	Some choose to forget
	Yet it still
	Weaves webs in their minds
	And it seems like she' s been here forever
	Her branches as black as the seas
	She' s been through it all
	By the luck of the draw
	She became the old hanging tree
	She asked for nothing
	Except maybe
	A little rain
	They used her strength
	To help them steal lives away
	And she witnessed the sadness and sorrow
	To this day she still doesn' t know why
	But her heart broke
	When they came with the rope
	To declare her the old hanging tree
	Life stranger then fiction
	Can make you want to cry
	Roots could never stop her
	From reaching for the sky
	Life stranger then fiction
	Can make you want to cry
	Roots could never stop her
	From reaching for the sky
	Those years have all past
	Lucky for us lucky for her
	Now, children play at her feet
	And in her arms she cradles birds
	And it seems she' s been here forever
	These days are the best that she' s seen
	But somewhere in the back
	Of her mind
	Is the time
	She was known as the old hanging tree

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