Dont know much about you
Dont know who you are
Weve been doing fine without you
But, we could only go so far
Dont know why you chose us
Were you watching from above
Is there someone there that knows us
Said wed 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 Ive heard they often can
Are you a poet or a dancer
A devil or a clown
Or a strange new combination of
The things weve handed down

I wonder who youll look like
Will your hair fall down and curl
Will you be a mamas boy
Or daddys little girl
Will you be a sad reminder
Of whats 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 weve handed down

You may not always be so grateful
For the way that you were made
Some feature of your fathers
That youd 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 weve handed down