Name: The Family Tree
Duration: 2 min 45 s
Channel: John Encinio
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The Family Tree

JOHN ENCINIO

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JOHN ENCINIO

High Energy Country/Western Swing Band.

John Encinio is a high energy, high profile performer. He always does his best to invigorate an audience with the fun and camaraderie he injects into his shows. Plenty of stories and humor - no filth. It is not uncommon for John Encinio and The Full House Band to receive many standing ovations and boisterous audience applause many times during an evening's performance. John Encinio and the Full House Band are a "must see" group at many of the most prestigious casinos, resorts, and rodeos in the Southwest - bar none.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country and Western

Charts

#6,668 today Peak #9

#413 in subgenre Peak #1

Author

John Encinio

Rights

John Encinio/Jemco Productions

Uploaded

November 08, 2006

Track Files

MP3

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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
              	  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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
           		  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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

CHORUS:  WELL, THE FAMILY TREE. . . . .THE FAMILY TREE
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

CHORUS:  OH, THE FAMILY TREE. . . . .THE FAMILY TREE
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
		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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