Imaginary Wars chords by Mark Erelli

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Mark Erelli - Imaginary Wars


CAPO: 2nd fret


Verse 1:
      C majorC       FF
Behind the house where I lived
   C majorC      G+G
Back when I was a kid
     C majorC               G+G
I played G.I. Joe beneath the tall pine trees
      C majorC    FF
I'd fight imaginary wars
      C majorC          G+G
'Til my mom called from our back porch
         C majorC
And I'd come home covered in that pine pitch
    G+G        C majorC
From my head down to my knees

Verse 2:
      C majorC       FF
Too big to wrap my arms around
    C majorC         G+G
Surely older than I could count
     C majorC                     G+G
Must have been there since the Mayflower crossed the sea
          C majorC         FF
They'd been through blizzards and hurricanes
    C majorC           G+G
Summer droughts and freezing rain
   C majorC
Them pines would live forever
        G+G        C majorC
At least that's how it seemed to me


Chorus:
       FF          C majorC
Now what's become of the old pine woods
     FF                   G+G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
     A minorAm    G+G         FF
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
   C majorC          G+G      C majorC
They subdivided all of my fondest memories

Verse 3:
      C majorC         FF
When those trucks came for my woods
   C majorC      G+G
I did everything I could
      C majorC                   G+G
And it was war for real when school let out that June
       C majorC           FF
I ripped down flags and I pulled up stakes
     C majorC           G+G
But what difference can one boy make
   C majorC
Those pines still fell like thunder
   G+G      C majorC
On a summer afternoon


Chorus:
       FF          C majorC
Now what's become of the old pine woods
     FF                   G+G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
     A minorAm    G+G         FF
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
   C majorC          G+G      C majorC
They subdivided all of my fondest memories


Bridge:
   A minorAm      E minorEm
And I never became friends
     FF          C majorC
With the families that moved in
     FF             G+G
They were different from us or so it seemed
    A minorAm      E minorEm
I grew up and moved away
     FF      C majorC
I just go home on holidays
     FF
But those tall and tangled pines
    G+G
They're still falling in my dreams


Verse 4:
    C majorC         FF
We all want the greenest lawn
       C majorC        G+G
And a country club where we belong
    C majorC           G+G
And an SUV to get us there in style
         C majorC          FF
But we don't keep track of what we've lost
     C majorC       G+G
We can't calculate the cost
       C majorC
When there's no place left for a boy's
   G+G      C majorC
Imagination to run wild


Chorus:
      FF          C majorC
So what's become of the old pine woods
     FF           G+G
It's all gone and it's gone for good
     A minorAm    G+G         FF
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
   C majorC          G+G      C majorC
They subdivided all of my fondest memories