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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 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 from 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 some I had lost
I saw the love he kept inside
The first time 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 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 spoke were quite a shock
   
We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
But that was long before we found the box

Yes, that was long before we found the box