IntroGAmEm x2
Verse 1EmAm
My dad once bought a Figmoron Tree
EmD
He planted it and he grew it
EmC
I chopped it down with a cherry-handled axe
GAmEm
And I told my old man I didn't do it
EmAm
After he died, I planted another
EmD
Where the earth and his bones were mingled
EmC
I cannot tell you how long I let that one stand
GAmEm
But if you look at the stump then the rings will
ChorusCGDGDC
Sitting in the sun beneath the Figmoron Tree
GAmEm
Figmoron Trees give no shade
CGDGDC
Sitting in the sun beneath the Figmoron Tree
GCEm
Sipping on a hot lemonade
Verse 2EmAm
You better not wait for the wind to knock it down
EmD
So you can cut it up and cord it
EmC
Whichever way the wind is blowing from
GAmEm
The Figmoron Tree bends toward it
EmAm
In October its leaves all turn pitch back
EmD
And they float away up through the clouds
EmC
Where they gather and stick like a thick swarm of bats
GAmEm
Until they fall in a heap to the ground
ChorusCGDGDC
Sitting in the sun beneath the Figmoron Tree
GAmEm
Figmoron Trees give no shade
CGDGDC
Sitting in the sun beneath the Figmoron Tree
GCEm
Sipping on a hot lemonade
Verse 3EmAm
It was 19 hundred-ought-zero-oh-nine
EmD
Flanagan went on his shooting spree
EmC
The next day I went out with my pliers and knife
GAmEm
And pulled 91 slugs from the Figmoron Tree
EmAm
I had just busted out of jail when I heard
EmD
The sound brakes make when they screech--
EmEmCC
My dear, late wife wrapped my yellow truck
GAmEm
Around the trunk of the old Figmoron Tree
ChorusCGDGDC
Sitting in the sun beneath the Figmoron Tree
GAmEm
Figmoron Trees give no shade
CGDGDC
Sitting in the sun beneath the Figmoron Tree
GCEm
Sipping on a hot lemonade
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