Justin Townes Earle – Lone Pine Hill (Guitar)

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I swear I see her in my dreams sometimes

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held up in the middle of the night

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Shaking like a pistol in a young man's hand

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there in the pale moonlight

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Standing up on top of that lonely hill

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spared by the company mine

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is my blue-eyed baby with her best dress on

       Em          G      Am
in the shadow of a lonely pine

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Ah, but back before the war when the company came

      Em         G        Am
these hills grew wild and free

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Me and baby, we'd hide in the hollers low

 Em           G           Am
away from the cruel sun's heat

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But then they knocked down the timber and burned off the brush

   Em         G        Am
to get to the riches below

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And when they pulled out they left the coal-black ground

    Em       G         Am
And one pine standing alone

           Dm    Em
So take me home

          Am
Lone Pine Hill

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Now I signed up back in sixty-one

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I'm an Army of Virginia man

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I been from Manassas to Mackonackey all the way to Sailor's Creek

Em           G      Am
fightin' for my homeland

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Ah, but four years gone and all hope lost

    Em       G       Am
and Richmond under siege

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And we're digging out Five Forks waiting in the rain

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For Sheridan to bring us to our knees

           Dm    Em
So take me home

          Am
Lone Pine Hill

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    There's a strange moon hanging overhead tonight

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    And if the rain keeps comin' then the creek's gonna rise

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   But with the Good Lord's Grace, I'll make it out of this place

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   And I'll be in your arms come the morning light, I swear

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So God grant me speed, and grant me forgiveness

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and carry me all through the night

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Take me through your hills and over your rivers

 Em            G          Am
away from this awful fight

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'Cause I never known a man that's ever owned another

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and I ain't never owned nothing of my own

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So after four long years I just can't tell you

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what the hell I've been fightin' for

           Dm    Em
So take me home

          Am
Lone Pine Hill