Chords for Marc Cohn - The Things We've Handed Down

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_ I _ [F] don't know much [C] about you, [G] I don't know who you [Bb] are
We've been doing fine [C] without you, but [G] we could only go [Bb] so far
[F] I don't know why you [C] chose us, [G] were you watching from [Bb] above?
[F] Is there someone there that [C]
knows us, [G] said we'd give you [F] all our _ love?
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] Will you laugh just like your [C] mother, will you sigh like your [Bb] old man?
Will some things [F] skip a [C] generation like a herd they often can?
[Bb] Are you a poet or [Dm] a dancer, a devil [C] or a clown?
_ _ [F] Or a [C] strange new _ combination of the things we've handed [F] down?
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[F] I wonder who you look [C] like, will your [D] hair fall down [Bb] and curl?
Will [F] you be _ [C]
mama's boy, [D] daddy's little [Bb] girl?
Will [F] you be a sad [C] reminder of [Dm] what's been lost along the way?
[F] Maybe you can help me [C] find her in the [Dm]
things you [Bb] do and [F] say
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] And these things [Dm] we've given you, [F] they are not so easily found
_ Oh, but you can thank [Dm] us later [C] for the things we've [F] handed down
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The _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] things we've handed down, down, [C] down, [D] _ down
[Bb]
You _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ may not always be so grateful [Dm] for the way that you were [Bb] made
_ [F] Maybe some feature of your [C] father's that [Dm] you'd gladly sell [Bb] or trade
_ [F] And one day you may [C] look at us [D] and say that [Bb] you were cursed
[F] But over time [Em] that line has been [D] extremely well [Bb] rehearsed
By _ [C] our fathers [Dm] and their fathers [F] in some old and distant [Bb] town
[F] From _ _ places no one [Dm] here [C] remembers come the things we've handed [F] down
The [Em] _ _ [D] _
things [Bb] we've handed [F] down, yeah, [C] _ _
_ [Bb] the things we've handed [F] down _ _
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