《Forefathers(Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： Forefathers(Album Version)

所属专辑：The Wild Places

歌手： Dan Fogelberg

时长： 04:57

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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]