Chords for The Things We've Handed Down

_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ Don't know much [C] about you _ Don't know who you [Bb] are
_ [F] We've been doing fine [C] without you [Dm] If we could only go so [Bb] far
_ _ [F] Don't know why you [C] chose us Were you watching from [Bb] above?
_ [F] Is there someone there who [C] knows us?
[Dm] Said we'd give you all [Bb] our _ _ _ _ _ [F] love
[C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] Will you laugh just like your [C] mother?
_ [Dm] Will you sigh like your [Bb] man?
_ [Bb] Will something skip a _
[C] generation?
Like [D] I've heard they often [Bb] can
Are [C] you a poet or a [Dm] dancer?
_ A devil [C] or a clown?
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ Or a [F] strange [C] new _ [D] combination [C] of
The [Bb] things we've handed [F] down? _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] Wonder who you look [C] like
_ Will [Dm] your hair fall down and [Bb] curl?
_ _ [F] Will you be a [C] mama's boy
[Dm] Or daddy's little [Bb] girl?
_ _ [F] Will you be a sad _
[C] reminder
Of [Dm] what's been lost along [Bb] the way?
_ _ [F] Maybe you can help me [C] find her
In the [Bb] _ things you do and say
_ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] And these things [Dm] that we've given you
They [F] are not so [C]
easily [Bb] found
_ _ _ Oh, but you [C] can thank [Dm] us later for
The [Bb] things [C] we've handed [F] down _
The _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Bb] things we've handed [F] down, down, down, [C] _ down, down
[Dm] _
May _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ not [F] always be so grateful
For the [Gm] way that you remain
_ Maybe [F] some feature of your _
[C] father's
That you _ [Dm] gladly _ [Bb] celebrate
_ One [F] day you may look [C] at me
_ [Dm] And say that you were cursed
But [F] over time that [C] line has been
_ [Dm] _ Extremely well [Bb] _ -rehearsed
_ _ _ By [C] all our fathers and [Dm] their fathers _
[F] In some old and distant [Bb] town _ _
_ From [F] places no one here [Dm] _ remembers
Common, [Bb] the things we've handed [F] down
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] The things we've handed _ [F] down, down
[C] _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] The things we've handed _ [F] _ down
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[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _
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