Intro: F    C     F     C     F     C     G 

VERSE I 
                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 


    
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    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       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 



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        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       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 

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              C     F 
To try to wash away the pain in Mamie's family 
            F  C             C 
As if they could, as if they would