Key: C
Introduction: G C G
Em D G
First of many flowers growing close behind the wall
Em D
Flax and seed, want and need, the wonder of it all
C G
There's a place in that garden
C Em C
We've both been there, darling
D C
I won't forget
Em D G
Woods of miles and acres, winding through the hills
Em D
Moaning of the barnyard dogs and barbed wire fences
C G
There's a place in that countryside
C Em C
You'll build a house so deep and wide
D C
I see the stones
Em
Long ago
C D G
Rooms of abandoned houses in my mind
Em
Long ago
C A7 D
Back porch living suits me fine
C Am
There were paints of blue and green
C D
I was somewhere in between
G Em D G
Mama rings the dinner bell, women and men
Em D
Move towards the sacred sound of a chiming metal wind
C G
Daddy he flips a dime
C Em
How will we survive this time
Am C Am C D G
Em
And long ago
C D G
There were sharecropping farmers on the land
Em
Long ago
C A7 D
All that's left are rusty nails in your hand
C Am
There were walls of yellow hue
C D G
Yeah, I learned a thing or two
Em D
The Trace winds a 1000 ways, the Natchez drew it well
G Em D
Their hallowed bones, the native ones, ours a merchant trail
C G
There are places in that road
C Em C
Where lie the seeds we sowed
D C
And I won't forget
G C G C G C G
Long ago