Tom: D
D C D
I remember the year my grandaddy died
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C D
They dug his grave on a mountainside
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C
I was too young to understand
G A
The way he felt about the land
D C D
But I could read his history in his hands
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
VERSE 2:
D C D
Corn in the crib and apples in the bin
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C D
Ham in the smokehouse, cotton in the gin
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C
Cows in the barn and hogs in the plot
G A
You know he never had a lot
D C D
But he worked like the devil for the little he'd got
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
VERSE 3:
D C D
Those apple trees on the mountainside
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C D
He planted the seeds just before he died
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C
I guess he knew he'd never see
G A
The red fruit hanging from the tree
D C D
But he planted those seeds for his children and me
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
VERSE 4:
D C D
High on a ridge above the farm
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C D
I think of my people that have gone on
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
D C
Like a tree that grows in the mountain ground
G A
The storms of life have cut them down
D C D
But the new wood springs from the roots underground
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
C D
Gone, gonna rise again
