Instrumental: C G Am F C G Am F C G C

[C]Great great great grandmother
[F]Are these your hands guiding my hands
[C]Holding this soft leather
Showing [F]mine to stitch the mocca[C]sin [F]  
[C]Why is it so familiar
[F]When these arms beat the drum
Or [C]   swimming in the river
Close these [F]eyes and time it all but [C]gone [F]  

[C]Mind's eye sees the [F]buffalo's silent silhou[C]ette against the open [F]skies
[C]And the sleepy [F]bee filled vineyard [C]   heavy with r[F]ipe vin[C]es [F]   

[C]   What can the ancestors [G]teach
Through time and space this body [Am]reach
Connected by the blood in these [F]veins
What [C]qualities arise from biol[G]ogy
What tendencies tra[Am]vel the genetic [F]line
What recollections [C]sprin[G]g
From the roots of the famil[C]y tree

[C]Why does this heart swell with [F]pride
When the piper plays
Or the [C]   jade green grass grows
[F]Right up to the ocean[C]s waves [F]  
[C]Why does the bodhran's beat
Brin[F]g tears to these eyes
And [C]   why so familiar when it’s [F]tucked
At m[C]y side [F]  

[C]What's the truth in [F]it's in your blood and what's the [C]deal with you’ve got it in your [F]veins.
[C]What's the part that [F]comes from the form and what's the [C]part that comes fro[F]m me [C]   [F]   

[C]What can the ancestors [G]teach
Through time and space this body [Am]reach
Connected by the blood in these [F]veins
What [C]qualities arise from biol[G]ogy
What tendencies tra[Am]vel the genetic [F]line
What recollections [C]sprin[G]g
From the roots of the famil[C]y tree

[C]These hands they carved a statue
And [F]knew somehow just what to [C]do
Like they had done it bef[F]ore
[C]Knowledge from [F]when I'm no[C]t sure [F]  
[C]It's so clear I must have [F]been there
The stone alcove on the [C]stair
She stood calmly in [F]prayer.
[C]A candle lit memory gently [F]flickering from some[C]where [F]  

[C]Are these memor[F]ies from another life [C]time [F]  
[C]And if so are they [F]from someone else's [C]   or from [F]mi[C]ne [F]   

Instrumental: C G Am F C G Am F C G C

[C]What memories are [F]linked through the body
And what [C]memories are linked through the [F]soul
[C]What is from [F]where we’ve been before
And [C]what is from where we are [F]goi[C]ng [F]  

[C]Oh this soul is my o[F]wn and for now this bo[C]dy is its [F]home
[C]And what wisd[F]om do these c[C]ells hold [F]   
and...

[C]What can the ancestors [G]teach
Through time and space this body [Am]reach
Connected by the blood in these [F]veins
What [C]qualities arise from biol[G]ogy
What tendencies tra[Am]vel the genetic [F]line
What recollections [C]sprin[G]g
From the roots of the famil[C]y tree