[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I don't know much about you, I don't
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know who you are
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And we'd been doing fine without you,
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but we could only go so far
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I don't know why you chose us, were you
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watching from above
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Is there someone there that knows us
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said we'd give you all our love
[Verse 2]
D A/C#
Will you laugh just like your mother will
Bm G
you sigh like your old man
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Will some things skip a generation like I've
Bm G
heard they often can
[Chorus]
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Are you a poet or a dancer, a devil or a
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clown
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Or a strange new combination of the
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things we've handed down
[Verse 3]
D A/C#
I wonder who you'll look like, will your
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hair fall down and curl
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Will you be a momma's boy or daddy's
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little girl
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Will you be a sad reminder of what's been
Bm G
lost along the way
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Maybe you can help me find her in the
Bm G
things you do and say
[Chorus]
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And these things that we have given you
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They are not so easily found
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But you can thank us later
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For the things we've handed down
[Verse 4]
D A/C#
You may not always be so grateful for the
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way that you were made
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Maybe some feature of your father's that
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you'd gladly sell or trade
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And one day you may look at us and say
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that you were cursed
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But over time that line has been
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extremely well rehearsed
[Chorus]
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By our fathers and their fathers in some
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old and distant town
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From places no one here remembers
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come the things we've handed down