The Box chords by Randy Travis

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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On the top shelf in the closet,
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In the workshop where he spent his extra time
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Was a dusty wooden box that I had never noticed till that night
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And we set on the table and carefully, we opened up the top
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And stared into the memory
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Daddy kept inside the box

Verse 2:
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There was a letter from mamma, when she went out to Reno
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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

Chorus:
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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 from solid rock
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But that was long before we found the box

Verse 3:
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I guess we always knew it but “I love you” was hard for him to say
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Some men show it easy and some just never seem to find the way
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But that night I began to see the softer side of someone I had lost
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I saw the love he kept inside the first time we opened up the box

Verse 4:
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There was a picture that was taken, when he and Mom were dating
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Standing by his 1944,
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And the faded leather Bible, he got when he was baptised
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I guess no one understood him like the Lord

Chorus:
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And the poem that he had written, about his wife and children
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The tender words he spoke were quite a shock
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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

Outro:
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We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
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Yes that was long before we found the box