[ti:Forefathers]
[ar:Dan Fogelberg]
[al:Portrait: The Music Of Dan Fogelberg From 1972-1997]
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[00:00.00]Forefathers - Dan Fogelberg
[00:06.29]Written by：Dan Fogelberg
[00:12.58]They came from scandinavia
[00:16.01]The land of midnight sun
[00:18.92]And crossed the north
[00:20.11]Atlantic when this century was young
[00:25.06]They'd heard that in America
[00:28.34]Every man was free
[00:31.37]To live the way he chose
[00:33.31]To live and be who he could be
[00:42.58]Some of them were farmers
[00:44.47]There and tilled the frozen soil
[00:48.49]But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil
[00:54.22]They say one was a sailor
[00:57.90]Who sailed the wide world round
[01:00.97]Made home port got drunk one
[01:03.26]Night walked off the pier drowned
[01:18.69]My mother was of scottish blood
[01:21.23]It's there that she was born
[01:24.30]They brought her to America in 1924
[01:30.62]They left behind the highlands
[01:33.11]And the heather covered hills
[01:36.90]Came to find America
[01:39.74]With broad expectant dreams and iron wills
[01:49.32]My granddad worked the steel mills of central illinois
[01:55.46]His daughter was his jewel
[01:58.04]His son was just his boy
[02:01.65]For thirty years he worked
[02:03.66]The mills and stoked the cokefed fires
[02:07.29]And looked toward the day when he'd at
[02:10.81]Last turn 65 and could retire
[02:20.00]Sons become the fathers
[02:23.22]And their daughters will be wives
[02:26.15]As the torch is passed from hand to hand
[02:29.32]And we struggle through our lives
[02:32.33]Though the generations wander
[02:35.45]The lineage survives
[02:40.32]And all of us from dust to dust
[02:43.38]We all become fore fathers by and by
[03:06.05]Woman and the man were wed just after the war
[03:10.77]And they settled in this river town
[03:14.76]Three fine sons she bore
[03:18.08]One became a lawyer
[03:20.81]And one fine pictures drew
[03:23.75]One became this lonely soul
[03:27.06]Who sits here now and sings this song to you
[03:36.17]And the sons become the fathers
[03:39.26]And their daughters will be wives
[03:42.54]As the torch is passed from hand to hand
[03:45.48]And struggle through our lives
[03:48.40]Though the generations wander the lineage survives
[03:57.03]And all of us from dust to dust
[03:59.54]We all become fore fathers by and by
[04:08.53]By and by
[04:14.39]By and by