| I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
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| I told her mama I' m getting married
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| I could hear her voice on the other side
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| Of the telephone she was smiling
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| And she asked me a question
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| That I proudly answered
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| She said son did you take time
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| To know her?
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| I said mama she is the best
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| But today it hurts me so to go back to Mama and say
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| Mama I' m getting divorced oh
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| I' m getting divorced
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| The choice I made didn' t work out the way
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| I thought it would
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| This choice I made it hurts me so mama
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| This choice I made didn' t work out the
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| Way I thought it would
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| This choice of mine oh…
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| Mama said to me Chorus (x2)
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| It' s not easy to understand it son
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| But I hope you' ll make it You' ll be happy again
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| I remember in church when the preacherman
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| Read the scriptures
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| You looked so beautiful, so beautiful
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| And so innocent
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| I did not know that behind that beauty
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| Lies the true colours that will destroy me In the near future
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| This choice I made didn' t work out to be What I thought it would be Oh mama this choice I made
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| Didn' t work out the way I thought it would
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| Now I' m hurting
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| I remember when I held you by the hand
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| Preacherman read the scriptures
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| Putting words in your mouth
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| Maybe what the preacherman said
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| Was not something that was within you
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| Now I know what they mean when
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| They say
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| Beautiful women
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| Is another man' s plaything
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| Oh Lord I' m hurting now
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| This choice I made didn' t work out the way
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| I thought it would
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| This choice of mine |