Bend Joseph by Brandon heath 
Key: AA | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

Verse :
A
I am not my family tree
D
These are different leaves, you know
F#m
There are miles and miles between
E
My roots and what I'm tryin' to grow
A
I am not the slave they sold
D
Nor am I royalty
F#m                 E
worn them both The finest coat,
              A
And rags that barely covered me

Chorus: 
            F#m
But there's mercy in the soil
D
Mercy in the sun
A
Learnin' to forgive 
     E
What cannot be undone
F#m 
What was meant to harm
      D
Can't harm you in the end
        A
Stepped out on a limb I thought my break
    E
But love said,
             F#m
It will only bend
             D
It will only bend

Verse 
A
I am not my past mistakes
D
Labeled by some place in time
F#m
Nor am I a trophy case
E
Tryin' to maintain my shine
A
I have dreamed a thousand dreams
D
Watch a grain in famine grow
F#m
I am not my family tree
                 E   
I have branches of my own

Bridge: 
A                      E
Oh, Does fate resign us too?
                     F#m            
Find shelter for our wounds
                     D
Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams
A                        E
Oh, But I will choose to stand 
                      F#m
In the shadow of Your hand
                         D                      
And see what grows when grace has sown the seed

(Slow Down Strum ) Em

  D   A   E
Oh, oh, oh
                    F#m
These are different leaves, you know
  D   A   E
Oh, oh, oh