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My brother said that I, was rotten to the core.
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I was the youngest child, so I got by with more.
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I guess she was tired by, the time I came along.
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She'd laugh until she cried, I could do no wrong.
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She would always save me, because I was her baby.
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I worked a factory in Ohio, a shrimp boat in the Bayou,
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I drove a truck in Birmingham.
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Turned 21 in Cincinnati,I called home to mom and daddy,
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I said "Your boy is now a man."
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She said "I don't care if you're 80, you'll always be my baby."
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She loved that photograph, of our whole family.
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She'd always point us out, for all her friends to see.
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That's Greg he's doing great, he really loves his job.
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And Ronnie with his 2 kids, how 'bout that wife he's got.
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And that one's kinda crazy, but that one is my baby.
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I got a call in Alabama, said come on home to Louisianna
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and come as fast as you can fly.
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Cause your momma really needs you, and says she's got to see you,
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she might not make it through the night.
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The whole way I drove 80, so she could see her baby.
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She looked like she was sleepin' and my family had been weepin'
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by the time that I got to her side.
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And I knew that she'd been taken, and my heart it was breakin',
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I never got to say goodbye.
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I softly kissed that lady, and cried just like a baby.