INTRO: G  C G   D  G  

                       C                G
Away we all go, summer nineteen-seventy-one
                  D                           G
From Chicago to Toronto, for a family reunion
                             C               G
My dad at the wheel, driving five hours at a clip
                D                           G
Swimming in the afternoons at another Motel 6


                          C                    G
First stop in town was my grandmother’s bakery
                    D                                     G
She stood there and welcomed us, the American celebrities
                               C                          G
I saw her photo on the wall, I thought she was the famous one
        D                                         G
Then my uncles and her gave us all the cookies we want


CHORUS:
        D
Here we are together
    C        G
Our father’s gone
        D
Here we are together
C           G
Forty years on
        Em
Here we are together
                   C
Just daughters and sons
              D
This is our reunion
              G
This is our reunion


INTERLUDE: C  G  D  G    D  G  

Em                    C                        G
Later in an old fancy restaurant, she wore the crown
              D                             G
Surrounded by all her kin, looking proudly around
             Em           C                               G
I watched my dad with his brothers, with their grey-green eyes
                   D                          G
And their handsome faces, with dark shadows behind


                      C                           G
All the things my dad loved, his brothers gave to him
                D                            G
Mathematics and opera, and Gilbert and Sullivan
                     C                  G
Oh, I used to believe he was the lucky one
                 D                            G
The one who got away, the mysterious prodigal son
                 D               C       G
At that family reunion, nineteen-seventy-one


CHORUS:
            D
And here we are together
    C        G
Our father’s gone
        D
Here we are together
C           G
Forty years on
        Em
Here we are together
                   C
Just daughters and sons
              D
This is our reunion
              Em
This is our reunion
              D
This is our reunion
              G
This is our reunion