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FCFCFCGVerse I
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To know how to live a life worth living
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Picked the story Mamie Ruth
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Who together with James Gerald
GAmG
Bore a generation just like me and you
FC
No doubt that they would make it
FC
With the love only the world could hold
FC
And despite all of the odds against em
GAmG
It's harder for the world to let her go
F
Don't wanna let go
ChorusFAmGAmG
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
FAmG
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C* CEmF
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
CGF
As if they could, as if they would
FC
Feel the pain in losing Mamie
FCVerse II
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Started out in small town Louisiana
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Getting married 'fore seventeen
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After waiting on a daddy's promise
GAmGA promise turned into a daddy's dream
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And the years filled up with blessings
GAmG
And the family branches grew
FCG
And Mamie and Gerald's love was the light come shining through
ChorusFAmGAmG
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
FAmG
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C* CEmF
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
CGF
As if they could, as if they would
C
Feel the pain in losing Mamie
BridgeFC
Old Isaac's rain was nothing
G
If you could feel that family's grief
FC
And in dying just like living
G
It was Mamie who took the lead
FC
To live a life worth living
FCFCG
Ooooh Oooooooooooooooh
FAmC
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
FGC
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C* CF
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
F C* C
As if they could, as if they would
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