A Life Worth Living

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D 3
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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     
Bore a generation just like me and
   G
 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         
It's harder for the world to let her
G
 go
F
Don't wanna let go


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CHORUS
        F                Am       
Oh the way it rained the day they 
         G          Am     G
came for Mamie
        F                      Am 
With a love so strong that it took
                           G
 a hurricane
           F             C*   
To try to wash away the pain in 
    C     Em  F
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    
A promise turned into a daddy's 
       G
dream

     F                      
And the years filled up with 
   C
blessings
         G               Am      G
And the family branches grew
                 F                 
And Mamie and Gerald's love was the
  C                   G
 light come shining through


CHORUS
        F                Am       
Oh the way it rained the day they 
         G          Am     G
came for Mamie
        F                      Am 
With a love so strong that it took
                           G
 a hurricane
           F             C*   
To try to wash away the pain in 
    C     Em  F
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      
Oh the way it rained the day they 
           C
came for Mamie
         F                    G   
With a love so strong that it took
        C
 a hurricane
           F             C*   
To try to wash away the pain in 
           C     F
Mamie's family
            F  C*             C
As if they could, as if they would