Heart Of The Wood Lyrics - The Life Of A Song - Joey + Rory

I think what made granddaddy great is that he didn't work all day 

I'd love the time we spent and I'd go everywhere he went 

We'd end up on some old deer trail 

And I'd listen hard as he would spin his tales 

We were in a field of stumps he said I got a new one for you hon 

These trees once stood tall and I'm the man that made them fall 

I cut 'em up, sanded them down 

And you wouldn't believe what I found 

'Cause past the bark and all the scars 

Our home was in the heart of those old trees 

God bless who sowed those seeds 

A hundred years and they just grew 

And only heaven knew just what they'd mean, to our family 

All that time to become what they should 

You know our home was in the heart of the wood 

He smiled, said there's my favorite one, pointed at a cherry stump 

He said I couldn't afford the one at Sears so the good lord planted one right here 

He carved out what he saw within and he gave it to my dad when he turned ten 

Past the bark and all the scars 

There was a guitar in the heart of that old tree 

All from just one seed 

A hundred years and it just grew 

And only heaven knew just what it'd be 

And how that tree could sing 

All the time to become what it should 

There were songs in the heart of the wood 

He said we can mark a tree to keep from getting lost 

and it'll always point our way home like that old rugged cross 

A hundred years and it just grew and only heaven knew just what it'd be And who'd hang on that tree it held the Son of God like it should 

But I know it broke the heart of the wood 

i think what made granddaddy great was that he didn't work all day 

I'd love the time we spent and 

I'd go everywhere that old man went