Intro: G  C G   D  G   

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Away we all go, summer nineteen-seventy-one 
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From Chicago to Toronto, for a family reunion 
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My dad at the wheel, driving five hours at a clip 
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Swimming in the afternoons at another Motel 6 


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First stop in town was my grandmotherâ??s bakery 
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She stood there and welcomed us, the American celebrities 
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I saw her photo on the wall, I thought she was the famous one 
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Then my uncles and her gave us all the cookies we want 


Chorus: 
        D 
Here we are together 
    C        G 
Our fatherâ??s gone 
        D 
Here we are together 
C           G 
Forty years on 
        Em 
Here we are together 
                   C 
Just daughters and sons 
              D 
This is our reunion 
              G 
This is our reunion 


INTERLUDE: C  G  D  G    D  G   

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Later in an old fancy restaurant, she wore the crown 
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Surrounded by all her kin, looking proudly around 
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I watched my dad with his brothers, with their grey-green eyes 
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And their handsome faces, with dark shadows behind 


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All the things my dad loved, his brothers gave to him 
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Mathematics and opera, and Gilbert and Sullivan 
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Oh, I used to believe he was the lucky one 
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The one who got away, the mysterious prodigal son 
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At that family reunion, nineteen-seventy-one 


Chorus: 
            D 
And here we are together 
    C        G 
Our fatherâ??s gone 
        D 
Here we are together 
C           G 
Forty years on 
        Em 
Here we are together 
                   C 
Just daughters and sons 
              D 
This is our reunion 
              Em 
This is our reunion 
              D 
This is our reunion 
              G 
This is our reunion