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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:11:57 -0700
From:
[email protected] (Paul Pfaffenberger)
Subject: Things_we ve_handed_down
The Things We ve Handed Down
by Marc Cohn
"The Rainy Season"
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I don t know much about you, I don t know who you are[/tab]
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And we d been doing fine without you but we could only go so far[/tab]
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I don t know why you chose us, were you watching from above[/tab]
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Is there someone there that knows us said we d give you all our love[/tab]
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I wonder who you ll look like will your hair fall down and curl[/tab]
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Will you be a momma s boy or daddy s little girl[/tab]
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Will you be a sad reminder of what s been lost along the way[/tab]
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Maybe you can help me find her in the things you do and say[/tab]
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Will you laugh just like your mother will you sigh like your old man[/tab]
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Will some things skip a generation like I ve heard they often can[/tab]
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Are you a poet or a dancer, a devil or a clown[/tab]
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Or a strange new combination of the things we ve handed down[/tab]
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You may not always be so grateful for the way that you were made[/tab]
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Maybe some feature of your father s that you d gladly sell or trade[/tab]
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And one day you may look at us and say that you were cursed[/tab]
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But over time that line has been extremely well rehearsed[/tab]
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By our fathers and their fathers in some old and distant town[/tab]
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>From places no one here remembers come the things we ve handed down[/tab]
Paul Pfaffenberger
[email protected]
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