P. Wagoner
(Spoken Intro)
INTRO: D
DAD
On past the Riley Fruit Farm in the country
AD
And accross the Gundy Hills of Chapin Holler
GD
An old man lived alone like a prisoner serving
AD
I'd never met a man like Albert Erving
VERSE (play the rest of the verses this way):
DAD
Albert never held a woman or a child
GDA
You could see that his loneliness had drove him wild
G
He said I ain't seen a soul in three long years
DAD
And down his lonely face came the tears
CHORUS:
AD
His house was built of logs and cardboard boxes
AD
The boxes sealed the cracks in the winter time
G
The floor in Albert's home was just the earth wore down
DAD
Where Albert Erving's feet walked around
SOLO: D A D
Everything in Albert's house was made by hand
A picture carved in wood set on a stand
Such beauty in that face I'd never seen
Carved just below the picture, the name Kathleen
Albert held the picture close up to his face
Said my Kathleen adds beauty to this place
I asked him who she was, then came the tears, he said she's not real
She's just someone I've dreamed of all these years
CHORUS
AD
Where Albert Erving's feet had walked around