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    1. Pass It Along

    From the recording One More Time Around (2013)

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    The lead track from Scott Cook's 2013 album One More Time Around, which won the Folk & Acoustic category in the 2013 UK Songwriting Contest, and has been covered by various artists around the world.

    Lyrics

    This guitar came from a timber, from the body of a tree
    Through the workshop of a luthier, now it's on loan to me
    And it's good company after dinner, and it fits my hands just fine
    But some day another singer with a pair of hands like mine
    Will coax out songs much prettier still hiding in its strings
    And sing stronger, braver words than I could ever sing
    And folks are gonna love it, of this I'm almost sure
    So I'll take good care of it, cause I'm borrowing it from her

    Pass it along, pass it along
    May it land in careful hands when we're gone
    You carry it for a moment
    But time won't loan it to you for long
    You don't own it, pass it along

    This here is my country, sometimes it's hard to recognize it
    But I count myself lucky, to have been born inside it
    And I'm grateful for the rights others struggled hard to win
    And you can be sure I'm gonna fight when they try to take 'em back again
    Oh, and everywhere are teachers, though some fell along the way
    The words they said still reach us, just like you're teaching me here today
    And you may not speak it loud, but it's clear in what you do
    And I hope to make you proud, because I borrowed it from you

    Seems these days we're in a hurry, to grab up all that's left to use
    Putting patents on discovery, making seeds that don't reproduce
    If our vision is so narrow, seeing only bought and sold
    We'll end up like the pharaohs, buried with their gold
    We've all pushed this thing along, we've all been guided by our fear
    But the river sings a song we've gotta be quieter to hear
    It's in every child's face, new and hopeful as a stem
    Best be gentle with this place, cause we're borrowing it from them

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