Things we've handed down......Marc Cohn

This was the song that my wife requested as she told me that we were pregnant.

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Don't know much about you don't know who you are

We've been doing fine without you but we could only go so far

Don't know why you chose us were you watching from above

Is there some one there that knows us said we'd give you all our love

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Will you laugh just like your mother will you sigh like your old man?

Will some things skip a generation like I've heard they often can?

Are you a poet of a dancer a devil or a clown?

Or a strange new combination of the things we've handed down

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I wonder who you'll look like will your hair fall down and curl

Or will you be a mama's boy of daddy's little girl

Will you be sad reminder of what's been lost along the way?

Maybe you can help me find her in the things you will do and say

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And these things that we have given you they are not so easily found

But you can thank us later for the things we've handed down

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You may not always be so grateful for the way that you were made

Some feature of your father's that you'd gladly sell or trade

And one day you may look at us and say that your were cursed

But over time that line has been extremely well rehearsed

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By our fathers and their fathers in some old and distant town

From places no one here remembers come the things we've handed down