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My mama loved my dad for fifty years 

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And she worked along beside him in the fields 

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He never gave her much but he gave her all he had 

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Dad's the only reason mama lived 


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My mama's face would light up like a diamond 

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Each time my daddy walked into the room 

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She'd stop what she was doing and put her arms around him 

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Dad's the only world my mama knew 


           D7            G 
Mama never saw her roses bloom that year 

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The angels came before the robin's song 

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Mama said she didn't mind going on ahead 

                    D7                  G 
But heaven won't be heaven till daddyâ??s home 


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When mama left she left dad a lonely man 

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But he talked to mama like she was still here 

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He'd talk about the hard times and the good times that they'd had 

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As his old mind slipped back across the years 


            D7                G 
Daddy never plowed his fields again 

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Heâ??d just sat down and wait his time to come 

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Then one day he said I think I hear a choir singing 

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He closed his eyes and went to live with mom 


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Lord I wanna thank you for the years they were here for me to love 

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And though it's hard to let 'em go Lord I know I'd let 'em go again 

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If I could just have been there 

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And seen my mama's face when dad walked in