The Red Leaf Forest chords by The Handsome Family

The Red Leaf Forest
Bonus Track from the album Honey Moon

G D G

 G      D    G
Deep in the red leaf forest
  C        G
A hunter with his crossbow
 C       G
Came upon the secret pool
    A       D
Where Diana took her hair down

    G    D    G
And he saw her perfect body
 C          G
Shining through the thickets
 C        G
Such a blinding beauty
   D       G
He could not say a word

   C
And though he stood there speechless
   G         C
She felt his eyes upon her
     G        C
And she turned him to a white stag
   A       D
And set his dogs upon him

     G      D     G
And the dogs didn't know their master
   C         G
They tore that stag to pieces
   C          G
Then called and called to him
   D       G
Who couldn't say a word

G D G C G C G A D C Bm Am

  G   D     G
But as he lay there bleeding
   C        G
He smiled up at the sunset
C         G
She who took his life from him
A          D D7
Was worth twice the cost

 G    D     G
Swirls of deep red leaves
   C        G
Fell on his perfect body
     C        G
And he smiled up at the trees
   D        G
But could not say a word

 C
When the fig tree blooms
     G        C
When the vine is red with berries
 G         C
Swallows soon will gather
     A       D  C Bm Am
To steal every drop of sugar

     G   C    G
And the world turns in circles
     C         G
In such wheels of burning beauty
   C         G
Each morning kills the night
   D      G
Without a single word
   C         G
Each morning kills the night
   D      C  Bm Am G