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