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The Randall Knife

The Randall Knife Lyrics

Song The Randall Knife
Artist Guy Clark
Album Songs And Stories
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[00:00.00] 作词 : Clark
[00:28.83] My father had a Randall knife
[00:31.33] My mother gave it to him
[00:35.02] When he went off to WWII
[00:37.71] To save us all from ruin
[00:43.51] If you've ever held a Randall knife
[00:46.33] Then you know my father well
[00:50.08] If a better blade was ever made
[00:52.76] It was probably forged in hell
[00:59.51] My father was a good man
[01:02.45] A lawyer by his trade
[01:06.08] And only once did I ever see
[01:08.26] Him misuse the blade
[01:15.25] It almost cut his thumb off
[01:17.81] When he took it for a tool
[01:21.50] The knife was made for darker things
[01:24.75] And you could not bend the rules
[01:30.79] He let me take it camping once
[01:33.85] On a Boy Scout jamboree
[01:34.85] And I broke a half an inch off
[01:40.29] Trying to stick it in a tree
[01:47.48] I hid it from him for a while
[01:49.17] But the knife and he were one
[01:53.22] He put it in his bottom drawer
[01:54.91] Without a hard word one
[01:58.53] There it slept and there it stayed
[02:05.06] For twenty some odd years
[02:09.04] Sort of like Excalibur
[02:11.54] Except waiting for a tear
[02:21.91]
[02:48.46] My father died when I was forty
[02:49.90] And I couldn't find a way to cry
[02:52.97] Not because I didn't love him
[02:56.77] Not because he didn't try
[03:00.60] I'd cried for every lesser thing
[03:05.74] Whiskey, pain and beauty
[03:07.49] But he deserved a better tear
[03:13.05] And I was not quite ready
[03:23.37] So we took his ashed out to sea
[03:24.82] And poured 'em off the stern
[03:26.31] And threw the roses in the wake
[03:31.25] Of everything we'd learned
[03:36.63] When we got back to the house
[03:40.00] They asked me what I wanted
[03:43.51] Not the lawbooks not the watch
[03:45.75] I need the things he's haunted
[03:53.00] My hand burned for the Randall knife
[03:55.88] There in the bottom drawer
[04:01.32] And I found a tear for my father's life
[04:02.94] And all that it stood for
[00:00.00] zuo ci : Clark
[00:28.83] My father had a Randall knife
[00:31.33] My mother gave it to him
[00:35.02] When he went off to WWII
[00:37.71] To save us all from ruin
[00:43.51] If you' ve ever held a Randall knife
[00:46.33] Then you know my father well
[00:50.08] If a better blade was ever made
[00:52.76] It was probably forged in hell
[00:59.51] My father was a good man
[01:02.45] A lawyer by his trade
[01:06.08] And only once did I ever see
[01:08.26] Him misuse the blade
[01:15.25] It almost cut his thumb off
[01:17.81] When he took it for a tool
[01:21.50] The knife was made for darker things
[01:24.75] And you could not bend the rules
[01:30.79] He let me take it camping once
[01:33.85] On a Boy Scout jamboree
[01:34.85] And I broke a half an inch off
[01:40.29] Trying to stick it in a tree
[01:47.48] I hid it from him for a while
[01:49.17] But the knife and he were one
[01:53.22] He put it in his bottom drawer
[01:54.91] Without a hard word one
[01:58.53] There it slept and there it stayed
[02:05.06] For twenty some odd years
[02:09.04] Sort of like Excalibur
[02:11.54] Except waiting for a tear
[02:21.91]
[02:48.46] My father died when I was forty
[02:49.90] And I couldn' t find a way to cry
[02:52.97] Not because I didn' t love him
[02:56.77] Not because he didn' t try
[03:00.60] I' d cried for every lesser thing
[03:05.74] Whiskey, pain and beauty
[03:07.49] But he deserved a better tear
[03:13.05] And I was not quite ready
[03:23.37] So we took his ashed out to sea
[03:24.82] And poured ' em off the stern
[03:26.31] And threw the roses in the wake
[03:31.25] Of everything we' d learned
[03:36.63] When we got back to the house
[03:40.00] They asked me what I wanted
[03:43.51] Not the lawbooks not the watch
[03:45.75] I need the things he' s haunted
[03:53.00] My hand burned for the Randall knife
[03:55.88] There in the bottom drawer
[04:01.32] And I found a tear for my father' s life
[04:02.94] And all that it stood for
[00:00.00] zuò cí : Clark
[00:28.83] My father had a Randall knife
[00:31.33] My mother gave it to him
[00:35.02] When he went off to WWII
[00:37.71] To save us all from ruin
[00:43.51] If you' ve ever held a Randall knife
[00:46.33] Then you know my father well
[00:50.08] If a better blade was ever made
[00:52.76] It was probably forged in hell
[00:59.51] My father was a good man
[01:02.45] A lawyer by his trade
[01:06.08] And only once did I ever see
[01:08.26] Him misuse the blade
[01:15.25] It almost cut his thumb off
[01:17.81] When he took it for a tool
[01:21.50] The knife was made for darker things
[01:24.75] And you could not bend the rules
[01:30.79] He let me take it camping once
[01:33.85] On a Boy Scout jamboree
[01:34.85] And I broke a half an inch off
[01:40.29] Trying to stick it in a tree
[01:47.48] I hid it from him for a while
[01:49.17] But the knife and he were one
[01:53.22] He put it in his bottom drawer
[01:54.91] Without a hard word one
[01:58.53] There it slept and there it stayed
[02:05.06] For twenty some odd years
[02:09.04] Sort of like Excalibur
[02:11.54] Except waiting for a tear
[02:21.91]
[02:48.46] My father died when I was forty
[02:49.90] And I couldn' t find a way to cry
[02:52.97] Not because I didn' t love him
[02:56.77] Not because he didn' t try
[03:00.60] I' d cried for every lesser thing
[03:05.74] Whiskey, pain and beauty
[03:07.49] But he deserved a better tear
[03:13.05] And I was not quite ready
[03:23.37] So we took his ashed out to sea
[03:24.82] And poured ' em off the stern
[03:26.31] And threw the roses in the wake
[03:31.25] Of everything we' d learned
[03:36.63] When we got back to the house
[03:40.00] They asked me what I wanted
[03:43.51] Not the lawbooks not the watch
[03:45.75] I need the things he' s haunted
[03:53.00] My hand burned for the Randall knife
[03:55.88] There in the bottom drawer
[04:01.32] And I found a tear for my father' s life
[04:02.94] And all that it stood for
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