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Randy Travis - The Box (Chord)
Submitter: lmofle (1024) on 7/20/03 2 comments
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The Box
By Randy Travis

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


Chorus 1:
            D                                                                       A
There was a letter from Mamma, when she went out to Reno to help her sister out in 62
      E   
And a flower from Hawaii, when they went on vacation
                                         A
It was the first time that my Daddy ever flew
        D  
And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day
                                 A
Years ago, I thought it had been lost
       E  
We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
                                      A
But that was long before we found the box


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

Chorus 2:
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
 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
Good job! It's been so long since I've heard it, I'd forgotten about it.
-WildCard76 | 7/20/2003
I forgot all about this song until I picked up Randy's most recent hits collection and it was on there. Sad too, because this is one of those songs that should never be forgotten.
-tpmadden | 6/17/2009
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