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To know how to live a life worth living |
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Take the story of Maimie Ruth |
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Who together with James Daryl |
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Four generations just like me and you |
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No doubt that they would make it |
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With the love only the world can hold |
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And despite all of the odds against us |
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Harder for the world to let her go |
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Don't want to let go |
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Oh the way it rained the day they came for Maimie |
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With a love so strong that it took a hurricane |
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To try to wash away the pain of Maimie's family |
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As if they could, as if they would |
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Feel the pain in losing Maimie |
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Started out in small town Louisiana |
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Getting married before seventeen |
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After waiting on her daddy's promise |
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Promise turned into a daddy's dream |
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The years filled up with blessings |
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And the family branches grew |
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Oh Maime yeah Daryl's love was light come shining through |
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Oh the way it rained the day they came for Maimie |
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With a love so strong that it took a hurricane |
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To try to wash away the pain of Maimie's family |
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As if they could, as if they would |
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Feel the pain in losing Maimie |
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Old Isaac's rain was nothing |
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If you could feel that family's grief |
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And if dying's just like living |
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It was Maimie who took the lead |
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To live a life worth living |
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Oh the way it rained the day they came for Maimie |
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With a love so strong that it took a hurricane |
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To try to wash away the pain of Maimie's family |
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As if they could, as if they would |
