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