Ricky Skaggs - My Father\'s Son lyrics

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(Ricky Skaggs - George M. Green)<br>

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My hist'ry is no secret it's written in the stones<br>

In the hill beside this river rest my mother's gentle bones<br>

And daddy there beside her amoung his next of kin<br>

And their legacy passed down to me the sons of mountain men.<br>

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Raised to be a miner by a miners callised hands<br>

Passed my youth between these mountains where I grew to understand<br>

That family was the word of God and faith was it's demand<br>

And life and death the same came from the coal beneath this land.<br>

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Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must defend<br>

But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men<br>

If that cup is passed to me to do what must be done<br>

When they lay me down remind them I was just my father's son.<br>

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I've walked among these people, heard the stories that they tell<br>

I've crawled beside them in the mines and touched the walls of hell<br>

I've shared their sacred secrets, known their triumph and their pain<br>

And right or wrong i'll stand with them on the final judgement day.<br>

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They say God gives his comfort when the time of trouble comes<br>

They say we'll know no share of peace till we lay down our guns<br>

But will my boy have the chance to do the things i've never done<br>

Or will he, like me, be told that he must be his father's son?<br>

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Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must defend<br>

But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men<br>

When that cup is passed to me to do what must be done<br>

On a chunk of coal just carve these words ''I was just my father's son...''<br>

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