The Box Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]On [C]the[G] to[C]p shelf in[G] the closet
In the [C]workshop where
he spent [D]his [G]extra time
Was a dusty wooden box that [C]I had
never no[D]ticed 'til that [G]night
Then we [C]set on the table and carefully
we opened up [G]the top
And [D]stared into the memories daddy
kept inside [G]the box

[Verse 2]
There was a [C]letter from mama,
when she went out to Reno
To help her sister out [G]in '62
And a [D]flower from Hawaii,
when they went on vacation
It was the first time that my
daddy ever [G]flew

[Verse 3]
And the [C]pocket knife I gave
to him on Fathers day
Years ago, I thought it had been [G]lost
We all [D]thought his heart
was made of solid rock
But that was long before
we [G]found the [C]box[G][C]

[Verse 4]
I [G]guess we always knew it but [C]"I love
you" [D]was hard for him to [G]say
Some men show it easily and [C]some
just never [D]seem to find [G]the way
But [C]that night I began to see a
softer side of some I had [G]lost
I [D]saw the love he kept inside the first time
when we opened up [G]the box

[Verse 5]
There was a [C]picture that was taken
when he and mom were datin'
Standing by his 1940[G]Ford
And a [D]faded leather Bible he got
when he was baptized
I guess no one understood
him like [G]the Lord

[Verse 6]
And the [C]poem that he had written
all about his wife and children
The tender words he wrote
were quite [G]a shock
We all [D]thought his heart
was made of solid rock
But that was long before we [G]found the box
We all [D]thought his heart was made
of solid rock
But that was long before
we [G]found the [C]box[G][C]