Mary Alice Vanderwaters songs
This song is a very touching story of love and loss. Hope you enjoy.
That Hollow Tree
Written by: Mary Alice Vanderwaters
Publisher: JERJOY Music
Verse:
That old oak tree in my granny's yard
Fell one morning when the wind blew hard
in a hole in the tree we found letters dated 42
Granny had fallen for the neighbor's son, Her daddy told her she was much too young, and he had forbidden her to ever see that no count boy again.
They met in secret nearly every night,
Before the war took him off to fight
He wrote her letters that her daddy swore she'd never see
Chorus:
That hollow tree held the passion of his words in vain, Their hopes and dreams for the future were prearranged,
He never knew he'd be a daddy that year, as he lay wounded paralyzed in fear, her daddy hid another letter in that hollow tree
Verse:
Granny never married, now she's 81, she never knew what her daddy had done, until her only son walked in and showed her what we had found.
Fragile and tattered and brown with age, "I love you dearly" was on every page, and it broke our hearts as she tried to read the words out loud.
She wondered why he never wrote her back, but all her letters were there in the stack, she wrote him letters that her daddy swore he'd never see.
Chorus:
That hollow tree held the passion of her words in vain, their hopes and dreams for the future were prearranged.
He never made it back home that year, but his love for her was now so perfectly clear, her only son found the letter's in that hollow tree.
He never knew he'd be a daddy that year
but his love for her was now so perfectly clear. Their only son found the letters in that hollow tree.
? 2005 Mary Alice Vanderwaters (BMI)
That Hollow Tree
Written by: Mary Alice Vanderwaters
Publisher: JERJOY Music
Verse:
That old oak tree in my granny's yard
Fell one morning when the wind blew hard
in a hole in the tree we found letters dated 42
Granny had fallen for the neighbor's son, Her daddy told her she was much too young, and he had forbidden her to ever see that no count boy again.
They met in secret nearly every night,
Before the war took him off to fight
He wrote her letters that her daddy swore she'd never see
Chorus:
That hollow tree held the passion of his words in vain, Their hopes and dreams for the future were prearranged,
He never knew he'd be a daddy that year, as he lay wounded paralyzed in fear, her daddy hid another letter in that hollow tree
Verse:
Granny never married, now she's 81, she never knew what her daddy had done, until her only son walked in and showed her what we had found.
Fragile and tattered and brown with age, "I love you dearly" was on every page, and it broke our hearts as she tried to read the words out loud.
She wondered why he never wrote her back, but all her letters were there in the stack, she wrote him letters that her daddy swore he'd never see.
Chorus:
That hollow tree held the passion of her words in vain, their hopes and dreams for the future were prearranged.
He never made it back home that year, but his love for her was now so perfectly clear, her only son found the letter's in that hollow tree.
He never knew he'd be a daddy that year
but his love for her was now so perfectly clear. Their only son found the letters in that hollow tree.
? 2005 Mary Alice Vanderwaters (BMI)
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