| 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 |