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Imaginary Wars by Mark Erelli
Imaginary Wars
CAPO: 2nd fret
[Verse 1]
C F
Behind the house where I lived
C G
Back when I was a kid
C G
I played G.I. Joe beneath the tall pine trees
C F
I'd fight imaginary wars
C G
'Til my mom called from our back porch
C
And I'd come home covered in that pine pitch
G C
From my head down to my knees
[Verse 2]
C F
Too big to wrap my arms around
C G
Surely older than I could count
C G
Must have been there since the Mayflower crossed the sea
C F
They'd been through blizzards and hurricanes
C G
Summer droughts and freezing rain
C
Them pines would live forever
G C
At least that's how it seemed to me
[Chorus]
F C
Now what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
[Verse 3]
C F
When those trucks came for my woods
C G
I did everything I could
C G
And it was war for real when school let out that June
C F
I ripped down flags and I pulled up stakes
C G
But what difference can one boy make
C
Those pines still fell like thunder
G C
On a summer afternoon
[Chorus]
F C
Now what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
[Bridge]
Am Em
And I never became friends
F C
With the families that moved in
F G
They were different from us or so it seemed
Am Em
I grew up and moved away
F C
I just go home on holidays
F
But those tall and tangled pines
G
They're still falling in my dreams
[Verse 4]
C F
We all want the greenest lawn
C G
And a country club where we belong
C G
And an SUV to get us there in style
C F
But we don't keep track of what we've lost
C G
We can't calculate the cost
C
When there's no place left for a boy's
G C
Imagination to run wild
[Chorus]
F C
So what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and it's gone for good
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
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