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On the top shelf in the closet, in the workshop where he spent his extra time 
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Was a dusty wooden box I had never noticed till that time 
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Then we set it on the table and carefully we opened up the top 
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And stared into the memory, Daddy kept inside the box 
 
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There was a letter from Mamma, when she went out to Reno to help her 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 ever flew 
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And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day 
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Years ago, I thought it had been lost 
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We all thought his heart was made of solid rock 
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But that was long before we found 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