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He Did
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Anais Mitchell
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Love you, love you, love you
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He did, he did, he did
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He stood high above you
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You were just a little kid
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Your daddy was a farmer
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His back was burnished red and gold
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And every time he closed his eyes a rooster crowed
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He sowed a hundred rows of corn
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The summer you were born
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And wondered what your life would yield
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How it feels to be a child of his, how it feels
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Your daddy was a builder
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He swung his hammer brown and silver
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Every time he closed his eyes a nail was drove
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And you were always underfoot
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Like a splinter in the wood
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He couldn't pull you from his heels
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How it feels, how it feels
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Love you, love you, love you
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He did, he did, he did
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He stood high above you
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Sky around his head
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Sawdust in his hair
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A scarecrow of a man
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He couldn't draw you near to him
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But you grew up straight and you grew up true
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And he kept a blue-gray eye on you
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Until the day he closed his eyes and left them closed
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Your daddy didn't leave a will
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He left a shovel and a hole to fill
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And how it feels, how it feels
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How it feels to be a child of his
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How it feels to be alive like this
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But who gave you an axe to grind?
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Who gave you a path to find?
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Who gave you a row to hoe?
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Who gave you your sorrow?
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Who gave you the break of dawn?
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A pleasure just to look upon
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Who gave you a barn to build?
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And an empty page, to fill
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