I took a walk into the pines   I left a million trees behind   They closed the hill I used to climb   Here's my reward      Back in the days of apple pie   I'd lie along the mountainside   I'd watch the black flies fill the sky   Here's my reward      I found a friend one summer night   She'd lay her head down next to mine   We'd send the whippoorwills a flight   Here's my reward   Gray homes and endless highways      Down in the maple grove,   Ten times sweeter than the world above