《Forefathers》歌词

歌曲： Forefathers

所属专辑：Portrait: The Music Of Dan Fogelberg From 1972-1997

歌手： Dan Fogelberg

时长： 04:53

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Forefathers - Dan Fogelberg[00:00:00]

Written by：Dan Fogelberg[00:00:01]

They came from scandinavia[00:00:12]

The land of midnight sun[00:00:16]

And crossed the north[00:00:18]

Atlantic when this century was young[00:00:20]

They'd heard that in America[00:00:25]

Every man was free[00:00:28]

To live the way he chose[00:00:31]

To live and be who he could be[00:00:33]

Some of them were farmers[00:00:42]

There and tilled the frozen soil[00:00:44]

But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil[00:00:48]

They say one was a sailor[00:00:54]

Who sailed the wide world round[00:00:57]

Made home port got drunk one[00:01:00]

Night walked off the pier drowned[00:01:03]

My mother was of scottish blood[00:01:18]

It's there that she was born[00:01:21]

They brought her to America in 1924[00:01:24]

They left behind the highlands[00:01:30]

And the heather covered hills[00:01:33]

Came to find America[00:01:36]

With broad expectant dreams and iron wills[00:01:39]

My granddad worked the steel mills of central illinois[00:01:49]

His daughter was his jewel[00:01:55]

His son was just his boy[00:01:58]

For thirty years he worked[00:02:01]

The mills and stoked the cokefed fires[00:02:03]

And looked toward the day when he'd at[00:02:07]

Last turn 65 and could retire[00:02:10]

Sons become the fathers[00:02:20]

And their daughters will be wives[00:02:23]

As the torch is passed from hand to hand[00:02:26]

And we struggle through our lives[00:02:29]

Though the generations wander[00:02:32]

The lineage survives[00:02:35]

And all of us from dust to dust[00:02:40]

We all become fore fathers by and by[00:02:43]

Woman and the man were wed just after the war[00:03:06]

And they settled in this river town[00:03:10]

Three fine sons she bore[00:03:14]

One became a lawyer[00:03:18]

And one fine pictures drew[00:03:20]

One became this lonely soul[00:03:23]

Who sits here now and sings this song to you[00:03:27]

And the sons become the fathers[00:03:36]

And their daughters will be wives[00:03:39]

As the torch is passed from hand to hand[00:03:42]

And struggle through our lives[00:03:45]

Though the generations wander the lineage survives[00:03:48]

And all of us from dust to dust[00:03:57]

We all become fore fathers by and by[00:03:59]

By and by[00:04:08]

By and by[00:04:14]