Recorded version is in A major
Intro
[C] [F] [C]
[Am] [Em] [Dm7] [G]
Verse 1
[C] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
The tobacco field tilted toward the edge of summer,
[Am] [Em] [G] [G7]
Greener than anything that it could ever keep.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
The creek rehearsed the same old conversation
[F] [G] [C] [Csus4] [C]
With stones best meant to listen, not to speak.
Verse 2
[C] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
The blackberries slowly darkened in the sunshine,
[Am] [Em] [G] [G7]
Using all of June just to learn their name.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
We found them where the pasture met the forest,
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
Taking what the bluebirds couldn't claim.
Chorus
[F] [G7] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
Where Tennessee narrows toward Virginia,
[F] [G7] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
The brick house holds the stories we all knew.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
It carries all our summers through the hollers,
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Always leaving room for someone new.
Verse 3
[C] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
Love's voices crossed these hills before the daylight.
[Am] [Em] [G] [G7]
I hear them as I whisper through the trails.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
My brother and my sisters left their footprints,
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
Grown over now but this farm still tells their tales.
Verse 4
[C] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
I still see mom and dad along the hillsides,
[Am] [Em] [G] [G7]
Though their days in Tennessee are gone.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
And still I see my daughter walk beside them.
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
So they can pass their dusk onto her dawn.
Chorus
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
Where Tennessee narrows toward Virginia,
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
The brick house holds the stories we all knew.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
It carries all our summers through the hollers,
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Always leaving room for someone new.
Verse 5
[C] [F] [C]
The hills keep watch above the rolling pastures,
[Am] [Em] [G]
While seasons pass like shadows through the trees.
[Am] [F] [C]
We leave our names behind us as we wander,
[F] [G] [C]
Someone will find them in another summer breeze.
Chorus
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
Where Tennessee narrows toward Virginia,
[F] [G] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
The brick house holds the stories we all knew.
[Am] [F] [C] [Cadd4] [C]
It carries all our summers through the hollers,
[Dm7] [G7] [C]
Always leaving room for someone new.
