Chestnut Mountain chords by Zoe & Cloyd

• Capo on 1st

Key: Eb

♫ Intro:

D G D A Em D



♫ Verse 1:
D       G
I was a boy
              D
Not over knee high
                     A       Em
When I first went to Chestnut
                             D
The homeplace up on a mountainside

♫ Verse 2:
D                  G
The place where my grandpa
            D
Lived as a child
                 Em        A
There once was a farm there
                           D
Some years they barely got by

♫ Verse 3:
D                 G
They cut down the chestnuts
            D
Cursing the blight
              A      Em
Sold them for tanbark
                                  D
That’s all you could do when they died

♫ Chorus:
D
All that’s left
        G
are the graves on a hill

A couple of chimneys
               D
standing there now
                                                     A   G
Memories float in back of my mind I wanna go back in time

♫ Verse 4:
D             G
Years went on by
                D
As years always do
        A       Em
Even on Chestnut
                            D
Life changed a lot up there too

♫ Verse 5:
D                  G
They moved off the mountain
                D
‘Til no one was there
                 A      Em
Except for great-grandma
                               D
And the home they all had once shared

♫ Chorus:
D
All that’s left
        G
are the graves on a hill

A couple of chimneys
               D
standing there now
                                                     A   G
Memories float in back of my mind I wanna go back in time

♫ Verse 6:
D              G
Homesites were offered up
            D
If you qualify
                        A        Em
But they can’t take our homeplace
                            D
No matter how hard they may try

♫ Verse 7:
D              G
Now there’s an iron gate
                   D
At the foot of the hill
                   A       Em
They locked up old Chestnut
                             D
But voices are singing there still

♫ Chorus:
D
All that’s left
        G
are the graves on a hill

A couple of chimneys
               D
standing there now
                                                     A   G
Memories float in back of my mind I wanna go back in time

♫ Outro:
D G D A D G D A G