MUSIC FOR SALE

[Verse 1]
There’s a street in my hometown
Remindin’ me o’ the years passed
A house in my hometown
Returnin’ me to the times passed
There’s a tree in my hometown
Bringin’ me back the things passed
Now and then I drive down and check on it
Measurin’ the distance from the past

[Verse 2]
To get from here to my hometown
It takes hundreds and hundreds o’ miles
From this big city to my hometown
Hundreds and hundreds o’ miles
This long road to my hometown
Stretches for hundreds o’ miles
But I thirst to see that old tree
Each time it washes me o’ lies

[Chorus 1]
My tree o’ blessin’, my tree o’ fight
My tree o’ blue skies, my tree o’ light
My tree o’ sorrow, my tree o’ pain
My tree o’ memories that always remain

[Verse 3]
That ol’ house is long empty
Its many roof tiles blown away
That place is no one’s home now
The windowpanes pulled out and taken away
The apple tree choked with weeds
Its roots don’t let it die away
Come autumn its crown’s ripe with fruit
With no one to pick ‘em the apples all rot away

[Chorus 1]
My tree o’ blessin’, my tree o’ fight
My tree o’ blue skies, my tree o’ light
My tree o’ sorrow, my tree o’ pain
My tree o’ memories that always...

[Chorus 2]
Oh, my tree o’ blessin’, my tree o’ fight
My tree o’ blue skies, my tree o’ light
My tree o’ sorrow, my tree o’ guilt
On your strong roots
My all is built

Ol’ tree o’ sun, faithful beacon of mine
I’ll rest in your shade
While I’m alive