所属专辑:The Wild Places
歌手: Dan Fogelberg
时长: 04:57
Forefathers - Dan Fogelberg[00:00:00]
They came from Scandinavia the land of midnight sun[00:00:13]
And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young[00:00:18]
They'd heard that in America every man was free[00:00:24]
To live the way he chose to live and be who he could be[00:00:31]
Some of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil[00:00:42]
But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil[00:00:48]
They say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round[00:00:54]
Made home port got drunk one night walked off the pier and drowned[00:01:01]
My mother was of Scottish blood it's there that she was born[00:01:18]
They brought her to America in 1924[00:01:24]
They left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills[00:01:30]
And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills[00:01:36]
My granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois[00:01:49]
His daughter was his jewel his son was just his boy[00:01:55]
For thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires[00:02:01]
And looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire[00:02:08]
And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives[00:02:20]
As the torch is passed from hand to hand[00:02:26]
And we struggle through our lives[00:02:31]
Though the generations wander the lineage survives[00:02:33]
And all of us from dust to dust[00:02:40]
We all become forefathers by and by[00:02:44]
The woman and the man were wed just after the war[00:03:06]
And they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore[00:03:11]
One became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew[00:03:18]
And one became this lonely soul[00:03:24]
Who sits here now and sings this song to you[00:03:26]
And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives[00:03:36]
As the torch is passed from hand to hand[00:03:42]
And we 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 forefathers by and by[00:03:59]