SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Bill Monroe lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Bill Monroe Lyrics for Song: Tall Pines Lyrics for Album: Bluegrass 1959-1969 [1999] Once in my youth, I stood on this mountain And planted some pines in the sand Every day I looked their way But just couldn't understand Why they never grew like I thought they should do I just couldn't understand why Now I've rambled around this wide world through And today I just happened by Tall pines, tall pines Reaching up for the clouds Tall pines, tall pines I bet you wouldn't know me now I'll never forget the morning I left The hum of the bees in the hay The farther I walk, the harder they talk How silent it seems here today There's an old rail fence that we built, inch by inch Surrounding the old family graves And there's one gravestone standing all alone There waiting to join me in the shade Tall pines, tall pines Reaching up for the clouds Tall pines, tall pines I've come home to sleep beneath your boughs Album Lyrics: Bluegrass 1959-1969 [1999] Bill Monroe "Bluegrass 1959-1969 [1999]" 1. Bonny 2. Careless Love 3. Cheap Love Affair 4. Come Go With Me 5. Dark As The Night, Blue As The Day 6. Farther Along 7. Foggy River 8. Going Home 9. I Was Left On The Street 10. It Makes No Difference Now 11. Just Over In The Gloryland 12. Sold Down The River 13. Tall Pines 14. There Was Nothing We Could Do 15. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again 16. When The Bees Are In The Hive