#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:11:57 -0700 From: extex@iamerica.net (Paul Pfaffenberger) Subject: Things_we've_handed_down The Things We've Handed Down by Marc Cohn "The Rainy Season" D A Bm G I don't know much about you, I don't know who you are D A Bm G And we'd been doing fine without you but we could only go so far D A Bm G I don't know why you chose us, were you watching from above D A Bm G D A G A Is there someone there that knows us said we'd give you all our love D A Bm G I wonder who you'll look like will your hair fall down and curl D A Bm G Will you be a momma's boy or daddy's little girl D A Bm G Will you be a sad reminder of what's been lost along the way D A Bm G D A G A Maybe you can help me find her in the things you do and say D A Bm G Will you laugh just like your mother will you sigh like your old man D A Bm G Will some things skip a generation like I've heard they often can A Bm D A G Are you a poet or a dancer, a devil or a clown D A Bm G A D A G Or a strange new combination of the things we've handed down D A Bm G You may not always be so grateful for the way that you were made D A Bm G Maybe some feature of your father's that you'd gladly sell or trade D A Bm G And one day you may look at us and say that you were cursed D A Bm G But over time that line has been extremely well rehearsed A Bm D A G By our fathers and their fathers in some old and distant town D A Bm G A D >From places no one here remembers come the things we've handed down Paul Pfaffenberger extex@iamerica.net --=====================_817740717==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" --=====================_817740717==_--