The Sins Of A Family Fall On The Daughter - The Grass Roots

She had a bad childhood when she was very young

So don’t judge her too badly

She had a schizophrenic mother who worked in the gutter

Would have sold herself to the devil gladly

What a sad environment, a bug-ridden tenement

And when they couldn’t pay the rent because her father was out getting liquor

The stone’s been cast in blood thicker than water

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter

At the age of 16 she had been around

More than any girl of 30

And the high I.Q.'s who condemned her knew

She was a product of poor heredity, yeah

It’s a fictitious fact when you fall on your back

You can backtrack failure with inspection

Without exception

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter

Oh, the devil is open to all of us

Heaven selects just a precious few

And it takes some inside pull to get

Gabriel to make an angel out of you

One can’t live a lie and expect to die

And with your soul in paradise

You know you gotta pay the price like you oughta!

Blood’s thicker than water

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter

And the sins of a family fall on the daughter

Yeah… and the sins of a family fall on the daughter