ฟังเพลงForefathers

Forefathers - Dan Fogelberg

Written by：Dan Fogelberg

They came from scandinavia

The land of midnight sun

And crossed the north

Atlantic when this century was young

They'd heard that in America

Every man was free

To live the way he chose

To live and be who he could be

Some of them were farmers

There and tilled the frozen soil

But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil

They say one was a sailor

Who sailed the wide world round

Made home port got drunk one

Night walked off the pier drowned

My mother was of scottish blood

It's there that she was born

They brought her to America in 1924

They left behind the highlands

And the heather covered hills

Came to find America

With broad expectant dreams and iron wills

My granddad worked the steel mills of central illinois

His daughter was his jewel

His son was just his boy

For thirty years he worked

The mills and stoked the cokefed fires

And looked toward the day when he'd at

Last turn 65 and could retire

Sons become the fathers

And their daughters will be wives

As the torch is passed from hand to hand

And we struggle through our lives

Though the generations wander

The lineage survives

And all of us from dust to dust

We all become fore fathers by and by

Woman and the man were wed just after the war

And they settled in this river town

Three fine sons she bore

One became a lawyer

And one fine pictures drew

One became this lonely soul

Who sits here now and sings this song to you

And the sons become the fathers

And their daughters will be wives

As the torch is passed from hand to hand

And struggle through our lives

Though the generations wander the lineage survives

And all of us from dust to dust

We all become fore fathers by and by

By and by

By and by