Tall Pines✓

Once in my youth I stood on a mountain

And planted some pines in the sand

Every day I'd look their way

But I just couldn't understand

Why they never grew like

I thought they should

I just couldn't understand why

Now I've rambled around

This whole world through

And today I just happened by

Tall pines tall pines

Reaching up for the sky

Tall pines tall pines

I'll bet you wouldn't know me now

I'll never forget the morning I left

The hum of the bees in the hay

The farther I walked

The louder they talked

How silent it seems there today

There's the old red fence

We built inch by inch

Surrounding the old family graves

And there's one red stone

Standing all alone

There waitin' to meet me in the shade

Tall pines tall pines

Reaching up for the sky

Tall pines tall pines

I'll bet you wouldn't know me now

Tall pines tall pines

Reaching up for the sky

Tall pines tall pines

I've come home to sleep beneath your pines