Chords for Marc Cohn - The Things We've Handed Down (Special)

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_ I [F] don't know much [C] about you, [G] I don't know who you [Bb] are
_ [F] We've been doing [Em] fine without you, we [G] could only go [Bb] so far
[F] I don't know why you [C] chose us, _ [G] were you watching from [Bb] above? _
[F] Is there someone there that [C] knows us, [G] said we'd give you [Bb] all our _ _ [F]
love?
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[Bb] _ _ _ [F] Will you laugh just like your [C] mother, [D] will you sigh like your old man?
_ [F] Will something skip a _ [C] generation like I've heard they often [F] can?
Are [C] you a poet [D] or a dancer, _ [F] a devil [C] or a [Bb] clown? _ _ _ _
Or [F] a strange new [Dm] combination [C] of [Bb] the things we've [C] [F] handed down?
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] The things we've handed down, oh
[C] I [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [F] wonder who you look [Em] like, [D] will your hair fall [Bb] down and curl?
[G] _ [F] Will you be [Em] a mama's [D] boy or daddy's [Bb] little girl? _
[F] Will you be a sad [C] reminder of [G] what's been lost [D] along [F] the way?
_ Maybe you can help me find her in the [D] _ things you do [Bb] and _ [F] say _ _
[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
And [C] you know these things that we [Dm] have given you, _ [F] they are not [C] so easily [Bb] found _ _
_ _ [F] But you [C] can thank us [Dm]
later [C] for [Bb] the things we've [C] handed [F]
down
The [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bb] things we've handed [F] down, oh
[C] _
You [D] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ may not _ _ [F] _ always be so [C] grateful [G] for the way that you [Bb] were made
_ [F]
Maybe some feature of [C] your father's that [G] you'd gladly sell [Bb] or trade
[F] _ And one day you may look at [C] us [D] and say that you were [F] cursed
_ But over time that [C]
line has been extremely well [Bb] _ _
rehearsed
_ _ _ By our father and [Dm] their father [F] in some old and distant [Bb] town
From _ _ [F] places no one [C] here [Dm] remembers come [Bb] the things [C] we've handed [F] down
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[D] _ _ _ _ [Bb] The things we've handed [F] _ down, oh
[C] The _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ things we've handed [F] _ _
_ [C] down
_ _ _ [D] You can thank [F] us later
You [C] can thank us [D] _ later
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