Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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knife
When he went off to WWII
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To save us all from ruin
If you've ever held a Randall knife
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Then you know my father well
If a better blade was ever made
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Verse 2
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A lawyer by his trade
And only once did I ever see
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Him misuse the blade
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The knife was made for darker things
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And you could not bend the rules
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Verse 3
On a Boy Scout jamboree
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Trying to stick it in a tree
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But the knife and he were one
He put it in his bottom drawer
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Without a hard word one
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Verse 4
There it slept and there it stayed
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For twenty some odd years
Sort of like Excalibur
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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And I couldn't find a way to cry
Not because I didn't love him
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Not because he didn't try
But he deserved a better tear
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And I was not quite ready
Verse 6
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And poured `em off the stern
And threw the roses in the wake
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Of everything we'd learned
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They asked me what I wanted
Not the lawbooks not the watch
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Verse 7
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There in the bottom drawer
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And I found a tear for my father's life
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And all that it stood for
Outro 1
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