Jam the Box

On the top shelf in the closet in the workshop where he spent his extra time
 Was a dusty wooden box but I had never noticed till that time
 Then we set it on the table and carefully we opened up the top
 And stared into the memories daddy kept inside the box
 There was a letter from mama when
 She went out to Reno to help her sister out in sixty two
 And a flower from Hawaii when they went on vacation
 It was the first time that my daddy ever flew
 And the pocket knife I gave to him on fathers day
 Years ago I thought it had been lost
 We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
 But that was long before we found the box
 I guess we always knew it, but 'I love you' was hard for him to say
 Some men show it easily and some just never seem to find the way
 But that night I began to see a softer side of someone I had lost
 I saw the love he kept inside the first time when we opened up the box
 There was a picture that was taken
 When he and mom were dating standin' by his 1944
 And the faded leather Bible, he got when he was baptized
 I guess no one understood him like the Lord
 And the poem that he had written about his wife and children
 The tender words he wrote were quite a shock
 We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
 But that was long before we found the box
 We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
 But that was long before we found the box