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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


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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

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But heaven won't be heaven till daddy’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


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Daddy never plowed his fields again

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He’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