Zoe & Cloyd "Chestnut Mountain" [Official Video]

Zoe & Cloyd Organic Records 2021 Stream: https://clg.lnk.to/ZCcm-s "Chestnut Mountain" by John Cloyd Miller, Kiowatica Music, ASCAP I was a boy Not over knee high When I first went to Chestnut The homeplace up on a mountainside The place where my grandpa Lived as a child There once was a farm there Some years they barely got by They cut down the chestnuts Cursing the blight Sold them for tanbark That’s all you could do when they died All that’s left are the graves on a hill A couple of chimneys standing there now Memories float in back of my mind I wanna go back in time Years went on by As years always do Even on Chestnut Life changed a lot up there too They moved off the mountain ‘Til no one was there Except for great-grandma And the home they all had once shared chorus Homesites were offered up If you qualify But they can’t take our homeplace No matter how hard they may try Now there’s an iron gate At the foot of the hill They locked up old Chestnut But voices are singing there still chorus