Bristle Cone Pine

When you hear the walk up when on 
the Am he is doing a small bass run
by  going like this:
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Capo 3

Intro:  Am  Em  Am  Em  Am  Em 

 Am  Fmaj7

    Am                         G  
Way up in the mountains on the 
        Am
high timberline
          G           Dm          
there's a twisted old tree called 
    G            Am
the bristle cone pine
    F               Am         G 
the wind there it's bitter and 
           Am
cut's like a knife
    G               Dm     G     
And keeps that tree holdin on for
      Am    Em  Am  Fmaj7
 dear life


Continues after the ad
Hold on it does stand in it's ground
Standing as empires rise and fall 
down
When Jesus was gathering lambs to 
his fold
The tree was already a thousand 
years old


Chorus 1:
        F          C              
Now the way I have lived there 
  G         C
aint no way to tell
     F            C        G
when I die if I'm goin' to heaven or
 hell
        F           C          G 
so when I'm laid to rest it'll 
            Am
suite me just fine
   Fmaj7                     G    
to sleep at the feet of the 
        Am
Bristle Cone Pine


As I would slowly return to this 
earth
What little this body of mine might 
be worth
It'd soon start to nourish the roots
 of that tree
It would partake of the essence of 
me


Who knows but that as the century's 
turn
A small spark of me might continue 
to burn
Long as the sun did continue to 
shine
Down on the limbs of the Bristle 
Cone Pine

Chorus 2:
By the way I have lived there aint 
no way to tell
When I die if I'm goin to heaven or 
hell
But I'd just soon serve out 
eternity's time
Asleep at the feet of the Bristle 
Cone Pine

Chorus 2

Asleep at the feet of the Bristle 
Cone Pine