[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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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 home town
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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

[Verse 2]
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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 momma's 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

[Chorus]
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Or I never would have lived like this
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Or learned like this
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Or laughed like this
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Or loved like this

[Verse 3]
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I'm glad he had the nerve to sail across the sea
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My great-grandaddy's great-grandpa in eighteen thirty-three
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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

[Verse 5]
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And 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

[Chorus]
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Or we never would have lived like this
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Or learned like this
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Or laughed like this
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Or loved like this
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Thank God He had the nerve

[Outro]
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And I'm glad I had the nerve to talk to you that day