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Randall Knife [DVD]
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Guy Clark
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My father had a Randall knife
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My mother gave it to him
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When he went off to WWII
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To save us all from ruin
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If you've ever held a Randall knife
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Then you know my father well
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If a better blade was ever made
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It was probably forged in hell
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My father was a good man
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A lawyer by his trade
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And only once did I ever see
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Him misuse the blade
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It almost cut his thumb off
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When he took it for a tool
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The knife was made for darker things
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And you could not bend the rules
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He let me take it camping once
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On a Boy Scout jamboree
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And I broke a half an inch off
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Trying to stick it in a tree
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I hid it from him for a while
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But the knife and he were one
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He put it in his bottom drawer
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Without a hard word one
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There it slept and there it stayed
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For twenty some odd years
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Sort of like Excalibur
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Except waiting for a tear
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My father died when I was forty
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And I couldn't find a way to cry
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Not because I didn't love him
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Not because he didn't try
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I'd cried for every lesser thing
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Whiskey, pain and beauty
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But he deserved a better tear
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And I was not quite ready
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So we took his ashed out to sea
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And poured 'em off the stern
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And threw the roses in the wake
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Of everything we'd learned
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When we got back to the house
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They asked me what I wanted
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Not the law books not the watch
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I need the things he's haunted
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My hand burned for the Randall knife
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There in the bottom drawer
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And I found a tear for my father's life
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And all that it stood for
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