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