Name: The Family Tree
Duration: 2 min 45 s
Channel: John Encinio
Description: "The Family Tree" is a song by JOHN ENCINIO. Western Ballad

The Family Tree

JOHN ENCINIO

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Author

John Encinio

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John Encinio/Jemco Productions

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November 08, 2006

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MP3 2.5 MB, 128 kbps, 2:45

Story behind the song

My family came to New Mexico Territory with the Spanish Conquistadores.  They were on the land long before it became a territory of the United States.  After New Mexico became a state in 1912 the government took their farms and ranches from them by virtue of taxation regulations.  Lots of people were wiped out long before the "Great Depression."

Lyrics

CAPO: 5TH FRET  KEY:  C  TIME:  4/4  INTRO:  5 - 4 - 1 - 1 - 5 - 4 - 1
	      		    4			       1
CHRS: THE FAMILY TREE, WHERE THE OLD FOLKS 
			4
SAT IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY
	 	   	  1 					   5 
WHERE THE LITTLE ONES PLAYED AS THE WIND IT SWAYED
         	        4                           			   1 
NOW THE OLD ONES ARE GONE AND WE'RE TAKING OUR PLACE 
             	   	  4      	        5		                          1 		1
'NEATH THE LEAVES OF THE THE FAMILY TREE
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              	  1                           			 4
WELL, THEY SOLD THE RANCH AND THEY MOVED TO TOWN
1				      5
DADDY WAS SICK AND HIS HEALTH WAY DOWN
4	    			     1  
MAMA WAS OLD AND THE TIMES WERE BAD
       4				     5			       1		1
SO THEY SOLD THE OLD PLACE, IT WAS ALL THEY HAD
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           		  1			                         4
AND THEY'D SIT IN THE EVENING AS THE SUN WENT DOWN
  	1                     			         5  
GRANDCHILDREN PLAYING ALL AROUND
4                            				1 
TALKING 'BOUT THE WAY THINGS USED TO BE
            		 4	       5			    1
'NEATH THE LEAVES OF THE FAMILY TREE
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CHORUS:  WELL, THE FAMILY TREE. . . . .THE FAMILY TREE
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TURNAROUND:  SAME AS INTRO
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		   1				         4
NOW IN THE YEARS TO COME MORE OF US WILL GO
          1			  5
BUT, LIFE MOVES ON AS WE ALL KNOW
	       4						      1
AND THE LITTLE ONES'LL KNOW IT'S THEIR PLACE TO BE
			 4	        5 			     1
'NEATH THE LEAVES OF THE FAMILY TREE
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CHORUS:  OH, THE FAMILY TREE. . . . .THE FAMILY TREE
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		4					       1
YEAH, THE OLD ONES ARE GONE AND WE'RE TAKING OUR PLACE
			  4	        5 			     1
'NEATH THE LEAVES OF THE FAMILY TREE
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
			  4	       5			    1
TAG:  'NEATH THE LEAVES OF THE FAMILY TREE 

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