Misc Originals – Colby Handley - The Day We Told Grandamama Bye (Guitar)

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It’s been two months since I seen her face

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Covid came and did its thing

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We all gathered around her bed just to cry

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We shared some stories that I never heard

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About her raising in the Alabama dirt

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Times where hard and the south was dry

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A sack flour was a nickel back then

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A cotton top girl with her daddy’s little grin

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Everybody picked cotton to survive

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It was seventy degrees in a frigid February

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It was so wonderful it was almost merry

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The casket was white and the birds where in the sky

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She was born two springs before the world war had end

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In a community full of her kin

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These black and white pictures can’t tell it all

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She loved the good lord with all of her heart

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Showed her kid and grandbabies what to do from the start

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Was a momma to many and will be missed by all

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It was seventy degrees in a frigid February

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It was so wonderful it was almost merry

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The casket was white and the birds where in the sky

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We laid her to rest next to my brother

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They were laughing while we cry and hold each other

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I can’t I believe the day is here so soon

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I'll see yall again when my time through

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It was seventy degrees in a frigid February

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It was so wonderful it was almost merry

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The casket was white and the birds where in the sky