A Life Worth Living

Intro: VERSE I 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