Standard (EADGBE)

A word in your ear

 From father to son

Hear the word that I say

I fought with you

 Fought on your side

Long before you were born

Joyful the sound

 The word goes around

 From father to son to son

And the voice is so clear

 Time after time it keeps

 Calling you calling you on

Don't destroy what you see

Your country to be

 Just keep building on the ground

 That's been won

Kings will be crowned

 The word goes around

 From father to son to son

 Won't you hear us sing

Our family song?

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

 Now we hand it on

 But I've heard it all before

Take this letter that I give you

Take it sonny hold it high

You won't understand a word that's in it

 But you'll write it all again before you die

A word in your ear

From father to son

Funny you don't hear

A single word that I say

But my letter to you

Will stay by your side

Thru' the years

Till the loneliness is gone

Sing if you will

 But the air you breathe

 I live to give you

 Father to son father to

 Father to father to son

Joyful the sound

Word goes around

Father to son to son

Kings will be crowned

Word goes around

Father to son to son

Joyful the sound

Word goes around

Father to son to son

Kings will be crowned

Word goes around

Father to son to son