Key: G
Introduction: G C G D G
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Away we all go, summer nineteen-seventy-one
D G
From Chicago to Toronto, for a family reunion
C G
My dad at the wheel, driving five hours at a clip
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Swimming in the afternoons at another Motel 6
C G
First stop in town was my grandmotherâ??s bakery
D G
She stood there and welcomed us, the American celebrities
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I saw her photo on the wall, I thought she was the famous one
D G
Then my uncles and her gave us all the cookies we want
D
Here we are together
C G
Our fatherâ??s gone
D
Here we are together
C G
Forty years on
Em
Here we are together
C
Just daughters and sons
D
This is our reunion
G
This is our reunion
Em C G
Later in an old fancy restaurant, she wore the crown
D G
Surrounded by all her kin, looking proudly around
Em C G
I watched my dad with his brothers, with their grey-green eyes
D G
And their handsome faces, with dark shadows behind
C G
All the things my dad loved, his brothers gave to him
D G
Mathematics and opera, and Gilbert and Sullivan
C G
Oh, I used to believe he was the lucky one
D G
The one who got away, the mysterious prodigal son
D C G
At that family reunion, nineteen-seventy-one
D
And here we are together
C G
Our fatherâ??s gone
D
Here we are together
C G
Forty years on
Em
Here we are together
C
Just daughters and sons
D
This is our reunion
Em
This is our reunion
D
This is our reunion
G
This is our reunion