D              C           D
I remember the year my grandaddy died
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D            C          D
They dug his grave on a mountainside
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D                  C        
I was too young to understand
    G             A
The way he felt about the land
    D                C       D
But I could read his history in his hands
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again

VERSE 2:

D           C        D
Corn in the crib and apples in the bin
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D          C           D
Ham in the smokehouse, cotton in the gin
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D                    C
Cows in the barn and hogs in the plot
    G             A
You know he never had a lot
       D               C             D
But he worked like the devil for the little he'd got
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again

VERSE 3:

D           C            D
Those apple trees on the mountainside
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D              C            D
He planted the seeds just before he died
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D                    C
I guess he knew he'd never see
    G                 A
The red fruit hanging from the tree
       D             C             D
But he planted those seeds for his children and me
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again

VERSE 4:

D         C        D
High on a ridge above the farm
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D             C           D
I think of my people that have gone on
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
D                             C
Like a tree that grows in the mountain ground
    G                   A
The storms of life have cut them down
        D        C                D
But the new wood springs from the roots underground
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again
C           D
Gone, gonna rise again