Forefathers Lyrics - Dan Fogelberg

Forefathers 

Dan Fogelberg 

They came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun 

And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young 

They'd heard that in America every man was free 

To live the way he chose to live and be who he could be 

Some of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil 

But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil 

They say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round 

Made home port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned 

My mother was of Scottish blood; it's there that she was born 

They brought her to America in 1924 

They left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills 

And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills 

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My granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois 

His daughter was his jewel; his son was just his boy 

For thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires 

And looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire 

(Chorus) 

And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives 

As the torch is passed from hand to hand 

And we struggle through our lives 

Though the generations wander, the lineage survives 

And all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by 

The woman and the man were wed just after the war 

And they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore 

One became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew 

And one became this lonely soul who sits here now 

And sings this song to you 

(Chorus) 

By and By; By and By 

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