Garfunkel Art The Things We`ve Handed Down Lyrics

The Things We`ve Handed Down Lyrics

Don't know much about you

 Don't know who you are

 We've been doin' fine without

 But we could only go so far

 Don't know why you chose us

 Were you watching from above

 Is there someone there that knows us

 Said we'd give you all our love.

 

 Will you laugh just like your mother

 Will you sigh like your old man

 Will some things skip a generation

 Like I've heard they often can.

 

 Are you a poet or a dancer

 A devil or a clown

 Or a strange new combination of

 The things we've handed down.

 

 I wonder who you'll look like

 Will your hair fall down and curl

 Will you be a Mama's boy

 Or Daddy's little girl

 Will you be a sad reminder

 Of what's been lost along the way

 Maybe you can help me find her

 In the things you do and say

 

 And these things that we have given you

 They are not so easily found

 Oh, but you can thank us later for

 The things we've handed down

 The things we've handed down

 down,down,down,down,down

 

 You may not always be so grateful

 For the way that you were made

 Maybe some feature of your father's

 That you'd gladly sell or trade

 And one day you may look at us

 And say that you were cursed

 But over time that line has been 

 Extremely well rehearsed.

 

 By our fathers and their fathers

 In some old and distant town

 From places no one here remebers

 come

 

 The things we've handed down

 The things we've handed down, down

 The things we've handed down