Key: Eb5 Time: 4/4, then 6/8 (Note: The timing may seem weird in the beginning because the accents aren't always on the first beats of the measures, and they start the song with a one-beat pickup.) Intro: Eb5 Eb5 B5 B5 F#5 F#5 B5 B5 Eb5 Eb5 B5 I swung beneath the battered trees F#5 B5 B5 The sunlight kissed and greeted me Eb5 Eb5 B5 It broke right through the clouded skies above F#5 B5 B5 Adorned the trees with shining love and Eb5 C#5 B5 C#5 Eb5 C#5 B5 C#5 Bb5 - Eb5 - Bb5 - Eb5 Veils of doubt and shadows fled my eyes (switch to 6/8) Eb5 The saddest looking trees Bb5 Broken and bruised in the fateful october's storm Ab5 Stripped of their majesty Eb5 The storm came in the night Bb5 It crippled this town, unannounced and unmercifully bawling Ab5 tears of wet snow B5 F#5 C#5 Though the trees cried through the night Eb5 C#5 B5 There was none to cure their plight B5 F#5 C#5 And it seemed their better days Eb5 C#5 B5 Would behind them , ever stay. C#5 F#5 Bb5 Bb5 Eb5 Oh, Oh, Ohhh Eb5 On that clouded day Bb5 Years had since passed since the fury of october's storm Ab5 When I found that old swing Eb5 They were standing high above Bb5 The sunlight came down and revealed to my eyes such a wonder Ab5 They were bursting with life Eb5 Eb5 Whoah No matter what storms you've seen Bb5 No matter the broken dreams Ab5 you've yet to see mend Eb5 Consider the the battered trees Eb5 Their leaves dancing in the breeze Bb5 Ab5 - Bb5 Recalling no memory of octobers's storm B5 F#5 C#5 Though the trees cried through the night Eb5 C#5 B5 There was none to cure their plight B5 F#5 C#5 And it seemed their better days Eb5 C#5 B5 Would behind them , ever stay.
