Key: C
Introduction: F C F C F C G
F C
To know how to live a life worth living
F C
Picked the story Mamie Ruth
F C
Who together with James Gerald
G Am G
Bore a generation just like me and you
F C
No doubt that they would make it
F C
With the love only the world could hold
F C
And despite all of the odds against em
G Am G
It's harder for the world to let her go
F
Don't wanna let go
F Am G Am G
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
F Am G
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C Em F
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
C G F
As if they could, as if they would
F C
Feel the pain in losing Mamie
F C
VERSE II
F C
Started out in small town Louisiana
F C
Getting married 'fore seventeen
F C
After waiting on a daddy's promise
G Am G
A promise turned into a daddy's dream
F C
And the years filled up with blessings
G Am G
And the family branches grew
F C G
And Mamie and Gerald's love was the light come shining through
F Am G Am G
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
F Am G
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C Em F
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
C G F
As if they could, as if they would
C
Feel the pain in losing Mamie
BRIDGE
F C
Old Isaac's rain was nothing
G
If you could feel that family's grief
F C
And in dying just like living
G
It was Mamie who took the lead
F C
To live a life worth living
F C G
Ooooh Oooooooooooooooh
F Am C
Oh the way it rained the day they came for Mamie
F G C
With a love so strong that it took a hurricane
F C F
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family
F C
As if they could, as if they would