This Wide Woods

[JOE]
Back before I was born
A forest of old trees
Kept watch over the town

But the lumbermen came
Swung a big axe
And cut the forest down

And what grew back
Is no damn good
Just scrub trees
And brush wood...

(spoken)
It's all pretty worthless. Soon as it's mine, I'll sell the whole lot and get the heck outta here.

[PERCY, spoken]
Your really wanna leave?

[JOE]
When you life your whole life
In the town of Gilead
Every morning you wake up
To another wasted day

When I have enough cash
I'm taking a train
A million miles away

I'll leave behind
This one dog town
There's nothing here
To tie me down

Oh, a life lived in Gilead
Is as worthless as these trees...

[PERCY, spoken]
I've seen a lotta worthless things. But these trees?

(sung)
If this wide woods was mine
If things was make believe
I'd walk beneath the branches
I'd never want to leave

If this wide woods was mine
I'd find a sturdy tree
I'd sit myself beside it
And dreams would come to me

I'd dream myself deep roots
To reach the water
I'd dream myself long limbs
To touch the blue

If this wide woods was mine
If this wide woods was mine
If this wide, wide woods was mine
That's what I'd do

(spoken)
Well, I better get inside before Hannah sets the dogs out after me. Parole session over?

[JOE, spoken]
I think that'll do for now.

[PERCY, spoken]
Alright then.

[JOE]
When I was just a boy
I'd climb that maple tree
I'd look out on the world
As far as I could see

[JOE & PERCY]
I'd dream myself deep roots
To reach the water
I'd dream myself long limbs
To touch the blue, oh

[PERCY]
If this wide woods was mine

[JOE]
When this wide woods is mine

[PERCY]
If this wide woods was mine

[JOE, PERCY]
When this wide If this wide
Wide woods is mine... Wide woods was mine...