Pulp
The Trees
(Jarvis Cocker, Steve Mackey, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks, Mark Webber)* 

Intro
F#

Verse
F#
I took an air rifle
Shot a magpie to the ground
       B              F#
And it died without a sound

Your skin's so pale
Against the fallen autumn leaves
And no-one saw us but the trees

Chorus
F#
Yeah, the trees
Those useless trees
       B 
Produce the air
           F#
That I am breathing

Yeah, the trees
Those useless trees
They never said
That you were leaving

I carved your name
With a heart just up above
Now swollen, distorted
Unrecognisable, like our love

The smell of leaf mould
And the sweetness of decay
Are the incense at the funeral procession here today

In the trees
Those useless trees
Produce the air
That I am breathing

Yeah, the trees
Those useless trees
They never said
That you were leaving

Bridge
B                                        C  
(2x)
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B
You try to shape the world to what you want the world to be
                                                                C
Carving your name a thousand times won't bring you back to me
F#
Oh, no, I might as well
I might as well just go and tell it to the trees!

Interlude
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-4--10--11--8--6- -8--10--8--6--4- --4s10--11
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Oh yeah, the trees
Those useless trees
Produce the air
That I am breathing

Yeah, the trees
Those useless trees
They never said
That you were leaving

Go and tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah
Go tell it to the trees, yeah 



* (The liner notes state: "The Trees samples 
"Tell Her You Love Her", written by Stanley 
Myers & Hal Sharper, published by Screen-Gems 
EMI Music Ltd. Used with permission. All 
rights reserved. Taken from the film OTLEY." 
I've no idea which bit of the song this relates 
to, but Messrs Myers and Sharper don't warrant 
a writing credit according to these notes.)
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