Marc Cohn 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 doing fine without you 
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 
But you can thank us later 
For the things we`ve handed down 

You may not always be so grateful 
For the way that you were made 
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 remembers 
Come the things we`ve handed down