Forefathers Chords by Dan Fogelberg

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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ Came from _ _ _ Scandinavia, [G] the land of midnight sun
_ _ [D] Across the North _ Atlantic [Bm] when this century was young
_ They [G] birthed it in _ America, _ every man was free
_ _ To live the way he chose, to [A] live and be who he [D] could be
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_ Some of them were farmers there, a jilt of frozen [G] soil _
[D] But all they got was _ poverty [Bm] for all their earnest toil _
They [D] say one was a _ [G] sailor, to sail the wide world round _
_ Laid home bored and got [Bm] drunk one night, [A] walked off the pier and [D] drowned _ _
[G] My _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ mother was of Scottish blood, _ it's there that she was _ born
_ They brought her to America _ [Bm] in _ 1924
_ _ They [G] left behind the highlands and the heather _ -covered hills
_ And came to find America [A] with broad [D] expectant dreams and iron _ _ wills
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_ _ _ My granddad worked the steel _ mills of central Illinois
_ _ _ His daughter was his jewel, _ [Bm] his son was just his boy
For _ [G] thirty years he worked the mills, he stoked the coke-fed fires
They [Bm] looked toward the day when he [A] had last earned sixty-five and will [D] retire _ _ _
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_ _ And [F#m] the sons become [D] the fathers [Bm] and their daughters will be _ wives
[G] As the torches pass from man to man, [D] we'll struggle through [A] our lives
Though [F#m] the generations _ wander, [Bm] the lineage _ _ _ _ _ survives _
[G] And all of us, from dusk to dusk, [Am] we all [B] become _ forefathers by [D] and by
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[D] _ The woman and the man were wed just after the war _
They settled in this river town, [Bm] three fine sons she bore _ _
[G] One became a lawyer, _ _ one fine pictures drew _ _
One became this lonely soul [A] who sits here now and sings this song to [D] you
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ And [F#m] the sons become the [D] fathers [Bm] and their daughters will be wives
[G] As the torches pass from man to man, [D] we'll struggle through [A] our lives
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Though the _ generations _ wander, the [Bm] lineage _ _ _ _ _ _ survives
[G] And all of us, from dusk to dusk, [A] we all become _
[D] _ forefathers by and by _ _
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[Bm] _ By [D] and by, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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