Come Little Children - The Hanging Tree

 Am           Am7
Come little children
      C        G
I'll take thee away
Dm     Am        Em  E7
Into a land of enchantment
Am          Am7
Come little children
     C              G
The time's come to play
Dm         Am         E7  Am
Here in my garden of shadows


[Verse 2]

 Am           Am7
Follow sweet children
      C        G
I'll show thee the way
Dm     Am        Em  E7
Through all the pain and the sorrows
Am          Am7
Weep not poor children
     C              G
For life is this way
Dm         Am         E7  Am
Murdering beauty and passions


[Interlude]

Am  E    Am  E
Ooooooh, ooooooh



[Verse 3]

    Am       Dm
Are you, are you
Am             E
Coming to the tree
         Am            Dm
Where they strung up a man
     Am
They say who murdered three.
Am                 Dm
Strange things did happen here
      Am             E
No stranger would it be
      Am     Dm
If we met at midnight
Em            Am
In the hanging tree


[Interlude]

Am  E    Am  E
Ooooooh, ooooooh



[Verse 4]

 Am           Am7
Hush now dear children,
    C           G
it must be this way
Dm           Am         Em  E7
Too weary of life and deceptions
 Am                F
Strange things did happen here
      Am             Em
No stranger would it be
      Am     Dm
If we met at midnight...........Into the calm
Em             Am
In the hanging tree.............And the quiet


[Verse 5]

  Am       Dm
Are you, are you
Am             E
Coming to the tree
Dm              Am           Em  E7
Through all the pain and the sorrows
Am                 F
Strange things did happen here
      Am             Em
No stranger would it be
      Am     Dm
If we met at midnight................Murdering beauty
Em            Am
In the hanging tree..................And passions
 Am                F
Strange things did happen here.......Weep not poor children
      Am             Em
No stranger would it be..............For life is this way
      Am     Dm
If we met at midnight................Murdering beauty
Em            Am
In the hanging tree..................And passions


[Verse 6]

 Am       Dm
Are you, are you
Am             E
Coming to the tree
  Am            Dm
Dead man called out
 Am
For his love to flee.
Am          Am7
Come little children
     C              G
The time's come to play
Dm         Am         E7  Am
Here in my garden of shadows


[Interlude]

Am  E    Am  E
Ooooooh, ooooooh
Am  E    Am  E
Ooooooh, ooooooh


[Verse 7]

 Am           Am7
Come little children
      C        G
I'll take thee away
Dm     Am        Em  E7
Into a land of enchantment
Am          Am7
Come little children.................Strange things did happen here
     C              G
The time's come to play..............No stranger would it be
Dm         Am         E7  Am
Here in my garden of shadows.........If we met at midnight in the hanging tree