My Father's Daughter

Album: Picking Up the Pieces (2015)
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  • She stepped off of the boat to see flowers in his hands
    The man she would marry was as hard as the mountains
    She had his children in a log cabin
    Soon I'd be another star in this family's constellation
    In the land of the midnight sun
    Searching for gold
    I am my father's daughter
    He has his mother's eyes
    I am the product of her sacrifice
    I am the accumulation of the dreams of generations
    And their stories live in me like holy water
    I am my father's daughter

    My father raised me in an old log cabin
    And he sang for me the songs his mother sang to him
    In honky-tonks, and empty bars, just me and him
    And that old guitar
    He passed on a legacy wrapped up in a melody
    And I carry on
    Searching for gold

    I am my father's daughter
    I have his eyes
    I am the product of his sacrifice
    I am the accumulation of the dreams of generations
    And their stories live in me like holy water
    I am my father's daughter

    And every time I step on stage

    And the music finds me

    I don't need gold to remind me

    I am my father's daughter
    I have my Grandma's eyes
    I am the product of such sacrifice

    I am the accumulation of the dreams of generations
    And their stories live in me like holy water
    I am my father's daughter
    Oh, I am my father's daughter Writer/s: JEWEL KILCHER, LISA CARVER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing
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