There was a maple tree in our front yard   When I was growin up, I'd climb up to the top   And watch my brother trading baseball cards   My Daddy pulling weeds, mother callin me   I was hiding in the leaves      And the world looked fine as fas as I could see   From the top of the family tree   A hundred branches growing 'round me   Way up there in the family tree      When I was seventeen, I left that town   My life was right on track, I never once looked back   I was so sure that I was glory bound   I gave it all I had and when it all went bad   Got a phone call from my dad      And the world looked fine as fas as I could see   From the top of the family tree   A hundred branches growing 'round me   Way up there in the family tree      Now I'm older and my husband laughs at me   I'm building houses for the kids up in a tree      And the world looks fine as fas as I can see   From the top of the family tree   A hundred branches growing 'round me   Way up here in the family tree