VERSE 1: 
 
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Today Granddad came by the office 
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Amazed at all the papers that I sign 
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I told him that's how we do business 
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I'm just a product of modern times 
     
He shook his head and then said 
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I don't understand how all these deals are done 
 
It just don't make no sense to me 
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To deal with people you don't see 
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We did it so much differently when I was young 
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When the shake of a hand  
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Was all you really needed 
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The strength of a man was in his words 
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When you could look him in the eye 
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And know just where you stand 
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Men were made on the shake of a hand  

VERSE 2: 
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Well I put down my pen down and closed up early 
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We drank a beer and talked of times he's had 
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He reminisced when he proposed to Nanna 
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And how he got permission from her dad 
 
He smiled and said I won't forget 
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The hardest hand I ever had to shake 
 
I told him I'd take care of her 
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And through the years I kept my word 
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Son we said just what we meant Back in those days 
 

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When the shake of a hand  
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Was all you really needed 
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The strength of a man was in his words 
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When you could look him in the eye 
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And know just where you stand 
         C5           D5          G5  
Men were made on the shake of a hand  
 
INSTR:  
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CHORUS: 
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The shake of a hand  
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Was all you really needed 
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The strength of a man was in his word 
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When you could look him in the eye 
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And know just where you stand 
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Men were made on the shake of a hand 
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Oh Men were made on the shake    of a hand