Tom: C
C F C
Once in my youth I stood on a mountain
G7 C
And planted some pines in the sand
F C
Every day I'd look their way
G7 C
But I just couldn't understand
[Verse 2]
G7
Why they never grew like
F C
I wanted them to
D7 G7
I just couldn't understand why
C
Now I've rambled around
F C
This whole world through
G7 C
And today I just happened by
[Chorus]
F
Tall pines tall pines
C G7
Reaching up for the clouds
C F
Tall pines tall pines
C G7 C
I'll bet you wouldn't know me now
[Verse 3]
F C
I'll never forget the morning I left
G7 C
The hum of the bees in the hay
The farther I walked
F C
The louder they talked
G7 C
How silent it seems there today
[Verse 4]
G7
There's the old rail fence
F C
We built inch by inch
D7 G7
Surrounding the old family graves
C
And there's one red stone
F C
Standing all alone
G7 C
There waitin' to meet me in the shade
[Chorus]
F
Tall pines tall pines
C G7
Reaching up for the clouds
C F
Tall pines tall pines
C G7 C
I'll bet you wouldn't know me now
[Outro]
F
Tall pines tall pines
C G7
Reaching up for the clouds
C F
Tall pines tall pines
C G7 F G7 C
I've come home to sleep beneath your pines
