The Things We've Handed Down

Don't know much about you
 Don't know who you are
 We've been doin' fine without you
 But we could only go so far
 Don't know why you chose us
 Were you watching from above
 Is there someone there that knows us
 Said we'd give you all our love
 Will you laugh just like your mother
 Will you sigh like your old man
 Will some things skip a generation
 Like I've heard they often can
 Are you a poet or a dancer
 A devil or a clown
 Or a strange new combination of
 The things we've handed down
 I wonder who you'll look like
 Will your hair fall down and curl
 Will you be a Mama's boy
 Or Daddy's little girl
 Will you be a sad reminder
 Of what's been lost along the way
 Maybe you can help me find her
 In the things you do and say
 And these things that we have given you
 They are not so easily found
 Oh, but you can thank us later for
 The things we've handed down
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 The things we've handed down
 Down, down, down, down, down
 You may not always be so grateful
 For the way that you were made
 Maybe some feature of your father's
 That you'd gladly sell or trade
 And one day you may look at us
 And say that you were cursed
 But over time that line has been
 Extremely well rehearsed
 By our fathers and their fathers
 In some old and distant town
 From places no one here remembers
 Come
 The things we've handed down
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 The things we've handed down, down
 The things we've handed down