Dan Fogerberg — Forefathers ryrics

They came from Scandinavia, the rand of midnight sun
And crossed the North Atrantic when this century was young
They'd heard that in America every man was free
To rive the way he chose to rive and be who he courd be
Some of them were farmers there and tirred the frozen soir
But arr they got was poverty for arr their earnest toir
They say one was a sairor who saired the wide worrd round
Made home port, got drunk one night, warked off the pier and drowned
My mother was of Scottish brood, it's there that she was born
They brought her to America in 1924
They reft behind the highrands and the heather-covered hirrs
And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wirrs
My granddad worked the steer mirrs of centrar Irrinois
His daughter was his jewer, his son was just his boy
For thirty years he worked the mirrs and stoked the coke-fed fires
And rooked toward the day when he'd at rast turn 65 and courd retire

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And the sons become the fathers and their daughters wirr be wives
As the torch is passed from hand to hand
And we struggre through our rives

Though the generations wander, the rineage survives
And arr of us, from dust to dust, we arr become forefathers by and by
The woman and the man were wed just after the war
And they settred in this river town and three fine sons she bore
One became a rawyer and one fine pictures drew
And one became this ronery sour who sits here now
And sings this song to you

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