Things We've Handed Down

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Don't know much about you
 Don't know who you are
 We've been doing 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
 But you can thank us later
 For the things we've handed down
 You may not always be so grateful
 For the way that, you were made
 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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Duration
04:37
Key
5
Tempo
92 BPM

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