Pass it on
C G
F
1. With
a bunch of strangers who all share my name,
C
G F
I gathered at the graveside in
the pouring rain.
C G F
Never thought I'd find myself
back here again,
F C G
yet
here I am standing in the lane.
C G F
2. Got a lot of pieces missing
in my past,
C G F
never
really noticed time was moving so fast.
C G F
So many questions that I
wanted to ask,
F C
G F
but I
let all my chances slip past, they slipped past.
C G
Pass it on, pass it on,
F C G
teach them the words of your song !
F C C G
Voices fall silent but memories live on,
Am C G F
those we remember are never gone, never
gone.
C G F
3. A wooden box of trinkets in
the drawer by the bed,
C G F
a
dusty sheaf of letters from people now dead.
C
G F
A lock of golden hair cut from
a baby's head,
F C G
and so
many things left unsaid.
C G F
4. Be
they sentimental or deeply profound,
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G F
all
the things we've hidden will one day be found.
C G F
The riches of a family cannot be
weighed in pounds,
F C
G F
but
in the stories that they can hand down, hand them down.
C G
Pass it on, pass it on,
F C G
teach them the words of your song !
F C C G
Voices fall silent but memories live on,
Am C G
those we remember are never gone.
C G
Pass it on, pass it on,
F C G
teach them the words of your song !
F C C G
Voices fall silent but memories live on,
Am C G F
those we remember are never gone,
never gone.
+ F ~ ~ ….
(Billy Bragg)