I'm gonna chop down the family tree
Rake them into piles and burn all the leaves
'Cause it's a forest of cowards and a forest of theieves

Show no mercy

I'm gonna chop down the family tree

Mill them into boards and build an effigy
I'm gonna set it on fire
It's gonna set dad free

Show no mercy

When evil thoughts got you caught I have no sympathy

Trying to shake a couple of cents out of a man who used to be
Thinking you're gonna sink a little sense back into me
Swingin' an axe will never split my family

With all that digging through the dirt you hope to see
That all your troubling words are gonna somehow get to me
A moneymaker I am not nor will I ever be

So there is nothing you can take from me

I'm gonna chop down the family tree

Throw my axe into its side and leave it be
And when they fall to the ground I will be the last thing they see
Show no mercy