Hope To Grow On

(Basic Level Chords. For Advanced Chords, click Here.)

Pre Verse 1

Em D G A
Like the wind on a young tree reflecting in the lake

G D G A D
You carefully bend me, but not enough to break

G F# Bm G DEm
I see my own likeness bowing there so fresh and green

G D5 Em7 A D
And just like that day breeze You're there but can't be seen.

Verse 1

D
You give me hope to grow on.

C C D
Hope that makes a love stand strong

C C D
Hope that makes a love last long

C G C D
Last long like the ageless spirit You impart

C G C D
Last long like an acorn planted in my heart.

C GGD
In my heart, You give me hope to grow on

Refrain

D D C D G
While others feed me lies

D D C D G
like poison in my meat

D D C D D G C D G
You strengthen me within and set me on my feet.

D D CD G
To stand against the forces

D D C D D G
'til the awesome day's complete

D D CD D G C D G
Come running home for you to make it obsolete.

Verse 2

D
You give me hope to grow on.

C C D
Hope that makes a love stand strong

C C D
Hope that makes a love last long

C G C D
Last long like the ageless spirit You impart

C G C D
Last long like an acorn planted in my heart.

C GGD
In my heart, You give me hope to grow . . .

Chorus 2 Extension

B C G6 BEm
. . . On, like the mighty oak tree does

D A Bm Em7
To spread its sheltering wings into

Bm7 G Asus A
the wind like the morning dove

(Short bridge)

F# G G F# B C C B A#dim
(Notes in chord: A# C# E)

B B Esus4 Em F#m G Asus4 F#

B C G6 BEm
. . . On, like the mighty oak tree does

D A/D D Dsus D5 Dsus D
And you know it won't be shaken when the earthquake comes

B C C C BA#dim
On, beside the waters growing here

B B/A Em7
With its love affair with the wind to

B5sus9 BmF#m Bm Asus A
flou rish on for a thousand years.

Outro
D D D D D D D DDDDDDD
D G D D
You give me hope to grow on.