| I’m glad I had the nerve to talk to you that day
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| I could just as easily have let you get away
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| In that crowded airport far from my hometown
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| If I had lost my courage then you wouldn’t be around
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| I’m glad I had the nerve
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| And I’m glad he had the nerve to get down on his knees
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| And say I bought this ring for you, won’t you wear it please
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| My daddy sure touched something in my mommas heart somehow
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| If he hadn’t, I sure wouldn’t be here with you now
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| I’m glad he had the nerve
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| Or I never would have lived like this
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| Or learned like this, or laughed like this, or loved like this
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| I’m glad he had the nerve to sail across the sea
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| My great granddaddy’s great-grandpa, in 1833
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| He met an Indian maiden, in the Smoky Mountain mist
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| If they hadn’t crossed that line I would not exist
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| I’m glad they had the nerve
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| I’m glad He had the nerve, while staring into space
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| To give this universe a time and a place
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| With one tiny atom, or an Adam and an Eve
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| However you look at it, whatever you believe
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| I’m glad He had the nerve
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| Thank God, he had the nerve
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| And I’m glad I had the nerve to talk to you that day |