Chestnut Mountain chords by Zoe & Cloyd
Guitar chords with lyrics
- 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:
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