Mama Courtney

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I remember as a baby barely one year
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When I first met Mama Courtney with
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 her heart of gold
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I didn’t know away back then how 
she’d influence me
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And I thank Mama Courtney for the 
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man I grew to be


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My mother lost her way in life 
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Mama Courtney took me in
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She became my foster Mother and my 
best friend
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She’d drive us kids around the town
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 in a big black ghost mobile
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To this day I still remember how 
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good she made us feel


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There are many children in this 
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world who suffer hurt and shame
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I thank all the Mama Courtney’s who
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 took away their pain
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God works in mysterious ways I 
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believe this is true
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Though she had no children of her 
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own she fostered 32


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Blackie was her husband he drove a 
pick-up truck
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He worked at the power station to 
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earn an honest buck
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At weekends he go hunting squirrels 
up in Arkinsaw
                                    
                                    
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And every night when he tucked us 
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in we would call him Pa


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Us kids are all now grown up and 
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gone our separate ways
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I look back on my childhood with 
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many happy days
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And when I go back to Sri-Port I 
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place flowers on her grave
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And I thank Mama Courtney for all 
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us kids that she saved