On the top shelf in the closet
   in the workshop where he spent his extra time
   Was a dusty wooden box that I had never noticed till that time
   And we set on the table and carefully we opened up the top
   And stared into the memories daddy kept inside the box

  
   There was a letter from mamma when she went out to Reno
   To help her sister out in 62
   And a flower from Hawaii when they went on vacation
   It was the first time that my Daddy ever flew
  
   And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day
   Years ago I thought it had been lost
   We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
   But that was long before we found the box

  
   I guess we always knew it but "I love you" was hard for him to say
   Some men show it easy and some just never seem to find the way
   But that night I began to see the softer side of someone I had lost
   I saw the love he kept inside the first time when we opened up the box
  
   There was a picture that was taken when he and Mom were dating
   standing by his 1944,
   and the faded leather Bible, he got when he was baptised
   I guess no one understood him like the Lord

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

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