Chords with lyrics
[Intro]
D MajorD FF D MajorD FF D MajorD FF D MajorD
[Verse 1]
My father laid the trees down
G+G D MajorD
He broke them with his hands
G+G
Last year he died and left me nothing
D MajorD G+G
But this frame I fill
A augmentedA union card
FF D MajorD
And a pair of workman's hands
[Verse 2]
And I was brought up in the north of here
G+G
In Copper Junction town
D MajorD
Where there ain't no longer
G+G
Any copper in the ground
D MajorD
Just the reservation land
G+G
Empty logging towns
Paper mills
FF D MajorD
And drawers of hand me downs
[Verse 3]
G+G
In 1964, I was seventeen years old
D MajorD
I got caught up in the draft
G+G
I did like I was told
D MajorD
And spent a pair of too long years
G+G
Too young to be so old
D MajorD
Well, it don't take too much sense
G+G
Just to come in from the cold
D MajorD G+G
Guess I never did
D MajorD
I guess I never did
[Verse 4]
Back home it was the bottle
G+G
Back to work with my old man
D MajorD
But we didn't get on so good
G+G
And it wasn't like we planned
D MajorD
And the last I saw of him
G+G
So drunk he couldn't stand
FF D MajorD
And that wagon's rolling empty
[Verse 5]
So I got myself cleaned up
G+G
I was married for a while
D MajorD
But that ring just kept on falling off
G+G
And sometimes I wonder why
D MajorD
But now it's years ago and faded
From whiskey and from rye
G+G FF D MajorD
And I wonder if it matters
[Instrumental]
D MajorD
[Verse 6]
My father laid the trees down
G+G
He broke them with his hands
D MajorD
And now I'm just like him
G+G
I got nowhere left to stand
D MajorD
And that wagon's rolling empty
And I've got nothing but the frame I fill
G+G
A augmentedA union card
FF D MajorD
And a pair of workman's hands
[Outro]