VOICES FROM THE PAST **Verse 1:** In the fields where morning broke the ground With calloused hands and hearts so sound The farmers planted seeds of faith While weavers worked through night and day The carpenter's hammer rang so clear Building dreams year after year Randy, can you hear us call From the shadows of it all? **Verse 2:** The blacksmith's forge burned bright and hot The cooper's staves, they tied the knot The combmaker with patient care Crafted beauty strand by strand The rancher watched the evening sky The innkeeper with door open wide Minister preached of hope and grace To every soul in every place **Chorus:** We are the voices from the past Whispered stories meant to last Through your heart, our legacy lives on Randy, tell the world we're not gone We lived, we loved, we carried on In your blood, our songs live on **Verse 3:** We raised our children, held them close Through seasons hard and times of growth In candlelight and morning sun We built the world that you came from Each generation passed along The strength to carry on this song Now you've traced us back in time Connected heart to heart in rhyme **Verse 4:** From sixteen hundred to today Our spirits never went away We're in your stubborn will to find The stories left for humankind So Randy, child of all our dreams You are our voice, our hope, our means To tell the world we walked this ground And in your heart, we can be found **Chorus:** We are the voices from the past Whispered stories meant to last Through your heart, our legacy lives on Randy, tell the world we're not gone We lived, we loved, we carried on In your blood, our songs live on **Bridge:** Four hundred years have come and gone But love endures, it carries on In courthouse books and weathered stone You've brought us from the great unknown We're not just names upon a tree We're flesh and blood, we're you and me So sing our song, don't let it fade Honor all the lives we've made **Final Chorus:** We are the voices from the past Whispered stories meant to last Through your heart, our legacy lives on Randy, tell the world we're not gone We lived, we loved, we carried on In your blood, our songs live on **Outro:** So tell our tales, dear Randy, tell How simple folk can leave their mark We are the light that guides you home Through history's long and winding dark *We are not gone... we are not gone...* *In your voice, we carry on...*
