Imaginary Wars

           C             F
Behind the house where I lived
     C            G
Back when I was a kid
         C                         
I played G.I. Joe beneath the tall 
     G
pine trees
            C       F
I'd fight imaginary wars
            C                   
'Til my mom called from our back 
 G
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                   
Must have been there since the 
                       G
Mayflower crossed the sea
                    C            
They'd been through blizzards and 
      F
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                    
Now what's become of the old pine 
C
woods
         F                       
It's all gone and there's a brand 
              G
new neighbourhood
          Am        G          
All for a buck they cut down all 
        F
those trees
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     C                    G       
They subdivided all of my fondest 
    C
memories


[Verse 3]
           C                  F
When those trucks came for my woods
      C            G
I did everything I could
           C                       
And it was war for real when school
              G
 let out that June
              C                    
I ripped down flags and I pulled up
 F
 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                    
Now what's become of the old pine 
C
woods
         F                       
It's all gone and there's a brand 
              G
new neighbourhood
          Am        G          
All for a buck they cut down all 
        F
those trees
     C                    G       
They subdivided all of my fondest 
    C
memories


[Bridge]
      Am           Em
And I never became friends
         F                   C
With the families that moved in
          F                        
They were different from us or so 
  G
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            
But we don't keep track of what 
       F
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                   
So what's become of the old pine 
 C
woods
         F                      G
It's all gone and it's gone for good
          Am        G          
All for a buck they cut down all 
        F
those trees
     C                    G       
They subdivided all of my fondest 
    C
memories