Things We've Handed Down chords by John Gorka
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Verse 1
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don't know much about you,
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I don't know who you are
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We've been doing fine without you,
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but we could only go so far
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Don't know why you chose us,
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were you 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
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love?
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Will you laugh just like your mother?
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Will you sigh like your old man?
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Some things skip a generation
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Like I've heard they often can
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Are you a poet or a dancer?
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A devil or a clown?
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Or a strange new combination
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The things we've handed down
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The things we've
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handed down
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I wonder who you'll look like
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Will your hair fall down in curls?
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Will you be mama's boy
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or your daddy's little girl?
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Will you be a sad reminder
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of what's been lost along the way?
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Maybe you can help me find her
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in the things you do and say
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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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Oh, but you can thank us later
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for the things we've
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handed down
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The things we've handed
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down
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Man I'd always be so grateful
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for the way that you were made some
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feature of your father's
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should gladly sell or trade
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and one day you may look at us an
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d say that you were cursed
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but over time that line has been extremely well
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rehearsed by our fathers and their fathers
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in some old and distant town
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for places no one here remembers
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called the things we've
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handed down
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the things we've handed down
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The things we've handed
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Things We've Handed Down
John Gorka
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