The Box lyrics

On the top shelf in the closet

In the workshop where he spent his extra time

Was a dust wooden box

That I had never noticed 'til that time

And we set on the table

And carefully we opened up the top

And stared into the memory

Daddy kept inside the box

There was a letter from Mama,

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 Father's 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 easily

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 datin'

Standing by his 1940 Ford 1

And a faded leather Bible,

He got when he was baptized

I guess no one understood him like the Lord

And the poem that he had written

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

1. 1944?