Key: F major•
Intro 1
Bb
F
C
Dm
Bb
F
C
Dm
Bb
Verse 1
F
I
Dm
Bb
I don't know who you are
F
C
We've been doing fine without you,
Dm
Bb
but we could only go so far
F
C
Don't know why you chose us,
Dm
Bb
were you watching from above?
F
C
Is there someone there that knows us,
Bb
F
C
Dm
Bb
love?
F
C
Will you laugh just like your mother?
Dm
Bb
Will you sigh like your old man?
F
C
Some things skip a generation
Bb
C
Dm
Are you a poet or a dancer?
F
C
Bb
A devil or a clown?
F
C
Dm
Or a strange new combination
Bb
C
F
The things we've handed down
C
Dm
Bb
The things we've
F
C
Dm
Bb
handed down
F
C
I wonder who you'll look like
Dm
Bb
Will your hair fall down in curls?
F
C
Will you be mama's boy
Dm
Bb
or your daddy's little girl?
F
C
Will you be a sad reminder
Dm
Bb
of what's been lost along the way?
F
C
Maybe you can help me find her
Dm
Bb
F
C
Dm
in the things you do and say
Bb
C
Dm
And these things that we have given you,
F
C
Bb
they are not so easily found
F
C
Dm
Oh, but you can thank us later
C
F
C
Dm
handed down
F
C
Dm
Bb
down
F
C
Man I'd always be so grateful
Dm
Bb
for the way that you were made some
F
C
feature of your father's
Dm
Bb
should gladly sell or trade
F
C
and one day you may look at us an
Bb
F
C
Dm
but over time that line has been extremely well
Bb
C
Dm
rehearsed by our fathers and their fathers
F
C
Bb
in some old and distant town
F
C
Dm
for places no one here remembers
C
F
C
Dm
handed down
Bb
F
C
the things we've handed down
Dm
Bb
The things we've handed
Outro 1
down
F
C
Dm
Bb
F
C
Dm
Bb
F
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ChordsBb F C Dm
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