Near the Graveyard Where Chestnuts are Gone

River valley farm fields

Early spring time

Cus' you can't help but stare

You drown the engine 

To the soft purr of barely goin'

Hardly anyone wants to get somewhere

In this place nobody knows

You broke my heart when we were

Barely grown

But baby somehow I could see

So I begged you not to leave 

One day, honey, could we lay

Beneath the stones?

Hand in hand, down the street 

Once again, around the bend

Sometimes these days you simply 

Turn to me and grin

We're too damn old to need to 

Pay someone to watch a babe

So our joints can creak us all the way

To our same old place for a date

I know I'll never be as good

As you were dreamin'

One day you could be in love 

But the stars are stuck in 

The same damn constellation

As when we fought in Paris

As when we kissed in Louisville

I'm sorry you're on the ground here 

With me... instead of far above

You broke my heart, love

When we were barely grown

But baby, somehow I could see

So I begged you not to leave

One day, love, could we lay

Beneath the stones

Your Mamma used to look

At me and sigh

She knew that she had nothin' much

To worry with this guy

I guess she asked you why you were

Willing to waste your beauty 

On a fool

Man it took a long long time

To prove the cruel

Way I begged you home

You broke my heart, love

When we were barely grown

But baby, somehow I could see

So I begged you not to leave

One day, love, could we lay

Beneath the stones

Guess I'll finish my water

Honey, you done with your wine?

We'll take the long way home

Near the graveyard where Chestnuts are gone

You know I love it when you scream

Big ole kiss... from the same

Son of a Bitch,

Who couldn't fool you in his dreams

The woods is reachin'

Straight over the road

Through the winter trees

We can see the fog on the gravestones

Somehow I got to spend a little time in this life

With a stranger who one day was called my wife

We'll be there soon, but hon, not alone

You broke my heart, love

When we were barely grown

But baby, somehow I could see

So I begged you not to leave

One day, love, we will lay

Beneath the stones

You broke my heart, love

When we were barely grown

But baby, somehow I could see

So I begged you not to leave

One day, love, we will lay

Beneath the stones