Barry McGuire - The Sins Of A Family lyrics

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 And would have sold herself to the devil, gladly What a sad environment A bug ridden tenement And when they couldn't pay the rent It was 'cause her father was out Getting liquored Oh, the stone's been cast And blood's thicker than water And the sins of the family fall on the daughter Yeah the sins of the family fall on the daughter At the age of 16 she had been around more Than any girl over 30 And the high I.Q's who condemned her Knew she's a product of poor heredity It's a fictitious fact when you fall on your back You can backtrack failure with inspection, without exemption All the sins of the family fall on the daughter Yeah the sins of the family fall on the daughter Oh, the devil is open to all of us Heaven selects a precious few And it takes some inside pull to get Gabriel To make an angel of you One can't live a lie then expect to die With a soul in paradise You know you gotta pay the price Like you oughtta Blood's thicker than water And the sins of the family fall on the daughter Yeah the sins of the family fall on the daughter