Cm
Come little children,
Eb             Bb
I’ll take thee away,
Fm     Cm            G
Into a land of enchantment
Cm
Come little children,
    Eb             Bb
the time’s come to play,
Ab         Cm        G7   Cm
Here in my garden of shadows

Cm
Follow, sweet children,
Eb                 Bb
I’ll show thee the way,
Fm              Ab            G
Through all the pain and the sorrows
Cm
Weep not, poor children,
    Eb           Bb
For life is this way,
Ab        Cm         G    Cm
Murdering beauty and passion

Cm           Fm
Are you, are you
Cm            Bb
Coming to the tree?
Cm               Fm
They strung up a man
Bb                    Cm
They say who murdered three
Cm                 Fm
Strange things did happen here
Cm                   Gm
No stranger would it be,
      Cm     Fm
If we met at midnight
Bb             Cm
In the Hanging tree?

Cm
Hush now, dear children,
   Eb           Bb
It must be this way,
    Fm       Cm       G      G7
Too weary of life and deceptions
Cm                        Fm
Strange things did happen here
   Cm                Gm
No stranger it would be,
      Cm     Fm
If we met at midnight
Bb             Cm
In the Hanging tree?

Cm           Fm
Are you, are you
Cm            Bb
Coming to the tree
Fm              Cm       G7
Through all the pain and sorrow
Cm                 Fm
Strange things did happend here
   Cm                Gm
No stranger it would be,
Abm       Fm         G    Cm
Murdering beauty and passion
Cm
Weep not poor children,
    Eb           Bb
for life is this way,
Cm           Fm
If we met at midnight
Bb             Cm
In the Hanging tree?

Cm           Fm
Are you, are you
Cm            Bb
Coming to the tree
        Cm              Fm
Where a dead man called out
Bb              Cm
For his love to flee
Cm
Come little children
Eb                 Bb
the time's come to play
Fm         Cm        G    Cm
Here in my garden of shadows

Cm (once)             N.C.
Come little children, I'll take thee away
N.C.
Into a land of enchantment
Cm
Strange things did happen here
   Cm                Gm
No stranger would it be
Cm           Fm
If we met at midnight
Bb             Cm
In the Hanging tree?