Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
A minorAm 
C majorC A minorAm C majorC
🎸 Verse 1:
A minorAm C majorC
This tree began growing when you were just a boy
A minorAm C majorC
​A revolutionary war hero up the river from Mount Vernon
A minorAm
Dip your feet in the Potomac
C majorC
A augmentedA road will run right through this house
A minorAm C majorC
They’re gonna put a train right through here after you are dead
🎸 Interlude:
FF / / / 
G+G / / /
🎸 Verse 2:
A minorAm
The trees enslaved folks planted
C majorC
Stand tall from whence they came
A minorAm
Your sons will choose the wrong side of history
C majorC
Centuries later people doin’ the same
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm
Stomp stomp, clash, voices crack
C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Don’t they know where they caaaaaaaaaaame from?
A minorAm
Stomp stomp, clash, voices crack
C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Don’t they know where they caaaaaaaaaaame from?
🎸 Interlude:
G+G / / / FF / / / 
E7E7 / / /
🎸 Verse 3:
A minorAm
Well there’s no whistle in the wind
C majorC
As I wonder ‘bout the length of time
A minorAm
It takes for bones to decompose
C majorC
How every person has to die
A minorAm C majorC
And if that guy can do it, so can I
A minorAm C majorC
If that guy can do it, so can I
A minorAm
While I’m still alive
C majorC
I’d like to hear your story
A minorAm
While I’m still alive
C majorC
I’d like to read your story
A minorAm
While I’m still alive
C majorC
I’d like to tell your story
A minorAm
While I’m still alive
🎸 Outro:
A minorAm
Stomp stomp, clash, voices crack
C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Don’t they know where they caaaaaaaaaaame from?
A minorAm
Stomp stomp, clash, voices crack
C majorC A minorAm C majorC
Don’t they know where they caaaaaaaaaaame from?
C majorC
