Hobo Jim - Bristle Cone Pine guitar chord

Bristle Cone Pine

By Michael Johnson

When you hear the walk up when on the Am he is doing a small bass run

by going like this:

E-------

B-------

G-------

D-------

A-----0-

E-0-3--- Use your pinky on the “3” note

Capo 3

Fmaj – XX3210

Intro: Am Em Am Em Am Em Am Fmaj

Am G Am

Way up in the mountains on the high timberline

G Dm G Am

there's a twisted old tree called the bristle cone pine

F Am G Am

the wind there it's bitter and cut's like a knife

G Dm G Am Em Am Fmaj

And keeps that tree holdin on for dear life

Hold on it does stand in it's ground

Standing as empires rise and fall down

When Jesus was gathering lambs to his fold

The tree was already a thousand years old

Chorus 1:

F C G C

Now the way I have lived there aint no way to tell

F C G

when I die if I’m goin’ to heaven or hell

F C G Am

so when I'm laid to rest it'll suite me just fine

Fmaj G Am

to sleep at the feet of the Bristle Cone Pine

As I would slowly return to this earth

What little this body of mine might be worth

It'd soon start to nourish the roots of that tree

It would partake of the essence of me

Who knows but that as the century's turn

A small spark of me might continue to burn

Long as the sun did continue to shine

Down on the limbs of the Bristle Cone Pine

Chorus 2:

By the way I have lived there aint no way to tell

When I die if I'm goin to heaven or hell

But I'd just soon serve out eternity’s time

Asleep at the feet of the Bristle Cone Pine

Chorus 2

Asleep at the feet of the Bristle Cone Pine