The Box

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On the top shelf in the closet, 
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in the workshop where he spent his 
extra time
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Was a dusty wooden box I had never 
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noticed till that time
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Then we set it on the table and 
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carefully we opened up the top
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And stared into the memory, Daddy 
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kept inside the box



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There was a letter from Mamma, when
 she went out to Reno to help her 
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sister out in 62
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And a flower from Hawaii, when they 
went on vacation
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It was the first time that my Daddy 
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ever flew
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And the pocket knife I gave to him 
on Fathers day
Years ago, I thought it had been 
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lost
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We all thought his heart was made of
 solid rock
But that was long before we found 
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the box
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I guess we always knew it_but "I 
love you" was hard for him to say
Some men show it easy and some just 
never seem to find the way
BUT that night I began__to see the 
softer side of some I had lost
I saw the love he kept inside the 
first time_we opened up the box

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There was a picture that was taken, 
when he and Mom were dating standing
 by his 1944
And the faded leather Bible, he got 
when he was baptised
I guess no one understood him like 
the Lord
And the poem that he had written, 
about his wife and children
The tender words he spoke were quite
 a shock
We all thought his heart was made of
 solid rock
But that was long before we found 
the box

Yes that was long before we found 
the box