Intro
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[Verse 1]
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They came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun,
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And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young.
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They'd heard that in America every man was free
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To live the way he chose to live and be who he could be.
[Verse 2]
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Some of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil.
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But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil.
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They say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round,
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Made home port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned.
[Verse 3]
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My mother was of Scottish blood, it's there that she was born.
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They brought her to America in 1924.
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They left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills
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And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills.
[Verse 4]
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My granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois.
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His daughter was his jewel, his son was just his boy.
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For thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires
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And looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire.
[Chorus]
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And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
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As the torch is passed from hand to hand
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And we struggle through our lives.
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Though the generations wander, the lineage survives,
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And all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by.
[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
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The woman and the man were wed just after the war
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And they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore.
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One became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew
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And one became this lonely soul who sits here now
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And sings this song to you.
[Chorus]
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And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
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As the torch is passed from hand to hand
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And we struggle through our lives.
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Though the generations wander, the lineage survives,
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And all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by.
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By and by...
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By and by...
[Outro]
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- 1. Chord Gitar Dan Fogelberg - Forefathers Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Dan Fogelberg - Forefathers Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan