Key: C major
Intro 1
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Gsus4
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Verse 1
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my mother gave it to him
When he went off to World War
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II to save us all from ruin
Verse 2
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Now if you've ever held a Randall knife,
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then you know my father well
Verse 3
My father was a good man,
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a lawyer by his trade
Verse 4
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Well, it almost took his thumb off
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when he took it for a tool
The knife was made for darker things,
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and you could not bend the rules
Verse 5
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on a Boy Scout jamboree
Gsus4
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And I broke a half an inch off,
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Verse 6
He put it in his bottom drawer
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without a hard word one
Verse 7
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Gsus4
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20 some odd years
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Sorta like Excalibur, except waiting for a tear
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Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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Well, my father died when I was 40, and I
Not because I didn't love him,
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Verse 9
I've cried for every lesser thing,
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whiskey, pain and beauty
And he deserved a better tear,
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and I was not quite ready
Verse 10
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everything we'd learned
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Verse 11
When we got back to the house,
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they asked me what I wanted
Not the lawbooks, not the watch,
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I need the thing he's haunted
Verse 12
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there in the bottom drawer
I found a tear for my father's life,
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all that it stood for
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F Gsus4 G
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