Tonalité : E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Daddy was the eldest of ten
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And my mama was an only child
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She must've represented back then
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The part of him that couldn't go wild
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She was free
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Ouvrir dans l’applicationSomething he could never be
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'Cause daddy was the one
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Who always took responsibility.
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Verse 2
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They met at a USO dance hall
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At the start of the Second World War
She was gentle,
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kind and intelligent
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Something daddy'd never
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known before
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And they danced
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Ouvrir dans l’applicationLater on came the romance
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'Cause daddy shipped out
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Before he had the chance
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to ask for her hand.
Verse 3
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But it all turned out all right
And he would lay in his hammock
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at night
Dreaming of a family and
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home
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With the woman that he left behind
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At night, his shipmates would go
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check out the bars
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But daddy'd just stare at the stars
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And dream of her
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'Til he thought he might lose
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his mind.
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Verse 4
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They got married on V.E. Day
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By the preacher from my
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mama's church
Mama'd always dreamed of
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a honeymoon
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But daddy had to go back to work
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He plowed those fields
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Since the Navy never tought
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him a trade
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Mama'd make his lunch
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And they'd eat it out in the shade.
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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The boys were born in the fifties
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Georgie, Herman and me
And we grew up wanting
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for nothing
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'Til Georgie saw his first TV
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It was the Christmas of
1959
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There was a console in the
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living room
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Well, mama and the boys
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watched variety shows
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And daddy just stared out at the moon.
Verse 6
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The drought hit hard in the sixties
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And the irrigation couldn't control
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Mama sighed when
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they sold the farm
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But daddy lost a piece of his soul
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He said "Hard work is a virtue
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And you should al ways work as
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Ouvrir dans l’applicationhard as you can "
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He said "Hard work
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will never hurt you"
But he never said nothing
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about the land.
Verse 7
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Yeah, but mama always told
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us boys
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"You should follow the Golden Rule
Always look for the good
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in the other guy
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But never be anyone's fool"
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Then daddy'd laugh a little
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Then he'd look out
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Ouvrir dans l’applicationat his weather vane
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Oh mama wants a rainbow
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Daddy just wants it to rain.
Interlude 2
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Verse 8
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They moved in with
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Herman's family
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In the nice part of the city
Mama'd help Gina with
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the grandchildren
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And tried to make the house look pretty
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But daddy'd sit at his window
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From when he got up 'til
he went to bed
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Just knowing that he'd failed
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his family
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He couldn't get it out of his head.
Verse 9
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It was the summer of 1978
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When mama caught
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pneumonia and died
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Daddy lost his will to live that fall
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Now they're buried side by side
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And in the midst of all our grief
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Georgie said to our relief
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"Well, mama got her rainbow
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And it's starting to rain".
Verse 10
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He said "Mama got her rainbow
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And it's starting to rain".
Verse 11
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And it's starting to rain
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It's starting to rain
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It's starting to rain
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It's starting to rain
It's starting to rain.
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Verse 12
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It's starting to rain
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It's starting to rain
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It's starting to rain,
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to rain, rain
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To rain.
Outro 1
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