Lucy Kaplansky - Reunion
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Away we all go, summer nineteen-seventy-one
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From Chicago to Toronto, for a family reunion
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My dad at the wheel, driving five hours at a clip
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Swimming in the afternoons at another Motel 6
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First stop in town was my grandmother’s bakery
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She stood there and welcomed us, the American celebrities
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I saw her photo on the wall, I thought she was the famous one
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Then my uncles and her gave us all the cookies we want
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Here we are together
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Our father’s gone
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Here we are together
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Forty years on
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Here we are together
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Just daughters and sons
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This is our reunion
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This is our reunion
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Later in an old fancy restaurant, she wore the crown
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Surrounded by all her kin, looking proudly around
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I watched my dad with his brothers, with their grey-green eyes
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And their handsome faces, with dark shadows behind
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All the things my dad loved, his brothers gave to him
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Mathematics and opera, and Gilbert and Sullivan
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Oh, I used to believe he was the lucky one
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The one who got away, the mysterious prodigal son
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At that family reunion, nineteen-seventy-one
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And here we are together
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Our father’s gone
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Here we are together
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Forty years on
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Here we are together
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Just daughters and sons
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This is our reunion
Em
This is our reunion
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This is our reunion
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This is our reunion