Key: F
F
C
Don't know much about you
Dm
Bb
Don't know who you are
F
C
We've been doing fine without you
Dm
Bb
But, we could only go so far
F
C
Don't know why you chose us
Dm
Bb
Were you watching from above
F
C
Is there someone there that knows us
Dm
Bb
F
/C
/ Bb
/C
/
Said we'd give you all our love
verse 2
F
C
Will you laugh just like your mother
Dm
Bb
Will you sigh like your old man
F
C
Some things skip a generation
Dm
Bb
Like I've heard they often can
C
Dm
Are you a poet or a dancer
F
C
Bb
A devil or a clown
F
C
Dm
Or a strange new combination of
Bb
C
F
C
/ Bb
/C
/
The things we've handed down
verse 3
F
C
I wonder who you'll look like
Dm
Bb
Will your hair fall down and curl
F
C
Will you be a mama's boy
Dm
Bb
Or daddy's little girl
F
C
Will you be a sad reminder
Dm
Bb
Of what's been lost along the way
F
C
Maybe you can help me find her
Dm
Bb
F
C
/ Bb
/C
/
In the things you do and -- say
C
Dm
And these things that we have given
F
C
Bb
They are not so easily found
F
F/E
Dm
But you can thank us later
C
Bb
C
F
F/E
/ Dm
For the things we've handed down
Bb
C
F
F/E
/ Dm
/Bb
The things we've handed down
verse 4
F
C
You may not always be so grateful
Dm
Bb
For the way that you were made
F
C
Some feature of your father's
Dm
Bb
That you'd gladly sell or trade
F
C
And one day you may look at us
Dm
Bb
And say that you were cursed
F
C
But over time that line has been
Dm
Bb
Extremely well rehearsed
C
Dm
By our fathers, and their fathers
F
C
Bb
In some old and distant town
F
C
Dm
From places no one here remembers
Bb
C
F
F/E
/ Dm
Come the things we've handed down
Bb
C
F
F/E
Dm
The things we've handed down
Bb
C
F
The things we've handed down