The Knowing Ones-Jed Davis

[ti:The Knowing Ones] [ar:Jed Davis] [al:Small Sacrifices Must Be Made!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Knowing Ones - Jed Davis [00:09.79]There's an old oak chest by the window [00:13.52] [00:14.10]That my great-grandfather built one shining june [00:17.59] [00:18.66]And i love to sit and look at it proud on the hardwood floor [00:23.63]Gleaming in the rays of summer afternoon [00:26.80] [00:28.53]They changed the family name at ellis island [00:32.01] [00:32.58]And no one here today knows what it was [00:36.22] [00:37.24]They ripped up all the records 'round the second world war [00:41.50]And time took the knowing ones as it always does [00:46.38] [00:46.94]And no one here can tell me any more than what they know [00:54.48] [00:55.75]It's a shame the knowing ones were gone so long before [01:00.84]The ones who need to know what we were so long ago [01:05.08]Look in the old oak chest and you won't see much [01:09.30]Just a few loose baubles and things [01:13.29] [01:14.07]But even if my ancestors were nothing more than carpenters [01:19.03]There's no one here to say they weren't kings [01:22.37] [01:23.36]In the old oak chest i see them all as kings [01:27.95] [01:28.57]And no one here can tell me any more than what they know [01:36.44] [01:37.28]It's a shame the knowing ones were gone so long before [01:41.38] [01:42.10]The ones who need to know what we were so long ago [01:46.54] [02:23.91]There's an old oak chest by the window [02:28.09]That my great-grandfather built one shining june [02:32.78]And i love to sit and look at it proud on the hardwood floor [02:38.83]While the knowing ones are smiling [02:40.87]In the rays of summer afternoon