"Did What We Had To Do"

Copyright 1988, Don McAvoy

Published by McAvoy Music Productions, Inc. (ASCAP)

610-630-1536

Administered by The Harry Fox Agency, Inc.

Lyrics reprinted with permission.  All rights reserved.

 

Dad, how do I repay you for all that you’ve done for me

All that you've taught me has earned interest

In this life that I lead

In this life that I lead

 

Before I’ve thought of it you’ve done it, you'd always say that with such a smile

Your advice wanders down corridors in my mind

Always with a moral inside

Always with a moral inside

 

CODA           And all though we haven't always seen eye to eye

I know we've always tried, we tried

While we did what we had to do

 

CHR. We did what we had to do

We did what we had to do

Well it wasn’t always easy, no, it wasn’t always hard

We made our sacrifices to get us where we are

And we’d do it all over again

Just to see these things happen

In your life and my life too

And all that we’ve been through

 

While I wrestled my ambitions I ignored the footsteps of advice

A man in search of experience

So I could write my own story lines

So I could write my own story lines

 

Any time we haven’t spent together I know you’ve worked your ass off for me

As I hear my own baby starting to cry

Your words have now become mine

Your words have now become mine

 

[CODA] [CHR.]

 

As I hear my own baby starting to cry

Your words have now become mine

Your words have now become mine

Your words have now become mine