verse 1 

F                C 
Don't know much about you 
      Dm           Bb 
Don't know who you are 
           F              C 
We've been doing fine without you 
              Dm         Bb 
But, we could only go so far 
F                  C 
Don't know why you chose us 
         Dm            Bb 
Were you watching from above 
         F                  C 
Is there someone there that knows us 
          Dm               Bb    | F / C / | Bb / C / | 
Said we'd give you all our love 


verse 2 

         F                    C 
Will you laugh just like your mother 
         Dm                 Bb 
Will you sigh like your old man 
            F          C 
Some things skip a generation 
          Dm               Bb 
Like I've heard they often can 
          C         Dm 
Are you a poet or a dancer 
  F     C    Bb 
A devil or a clown 
     F           C    Dm 
Or a strange new combination of 
    Bb           C      F  /  C / | Bb / C / | 
The things we've handed down 


verse 3 

  F                 C 
I wonder who you'll look like 
          Dm                 Bb 
Will your hair fall down and curl 
F             C 
Will you be a mama's boy 
   Dm             Bb 
Or daddy's little girl 
         F          C 
Will you be a sad reminder 
               Dm             Bb 
Of what's been lost along the way 
      F               C 
Maybe you can help me find her 
       Dm                Bb    F  /  C / | Bb / C / | 
In the things you do and -- say 
          C                   Dm 
And these things that we have given 
         F      C      Bb 
They are not so easily found 
    F       F/E      Dm 
But you can thank us later 
C       Bb           C      F  /  F/E / | Dm  
For the things we've handed down 
    Bb           C      F   /  F/E / | Dm / Bb 
The things we've handed down 


verse 4 

             F           C 
You may not always be so grateful 
        Dm                Bb 
For the way that you were made 
     F               C 
Some feature of your father's 
           Dm             Bb 
That you'd gladly sell or trade 
    F               C 
And one day you may look at us 
    Dm                Bb 
And say that you were cursed 
    F              C 
But over time that line has been 
  Dm             Bb 
Extremely well rehearsed 
       C                  Dm 
By our fathers, and their fathers 
        F       C       Bb 
In some old and distant town 
            F      C      Dm 
From places no one here remembers 
         Bb           C      F  / F/E / | Dm 
Come the things we've handed down 
    Bb           C      F   /  F/E  / | Dm 
The things we've handed down 
    Bb           C      F 
The things we've handed down