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JUST 12 YEARS OLD / WHEN HIS MOTHER DIED / HE WAS AN ORPHAN, THOUGH HIS FATHER SURVIVED
ONE OF 18 BORN, OR SO / THE REAL NUMBER NO ONE KNOWS / AND SHE WAS ONLY 39

NOT WELCOME AT HOME / STEP MOM COULDN’T COPE - SENT TO WORK A FARM / THAT AN UNCLE OWNED
COULD NOT ABIDE BY THEIR / ADVENTIST DECREES / VOLUNTEERED FOR WAR / AT ONLY SEVENTEEN

HIS STORIES ECHO IN MY EARS / AND WHEN MY PATHWAY ISN’T CLEAR
IT’S HIS GUIDING VOICE I HEAR….AND I’M STILL LISTENING…


RUNNING WILD AT 21 / A NAVY VET OUT ON THE TOWN / A HELLION WITH AN UNTAMED HEART / NO THOUGHT TO SETTLE DOWN
SHE WAS A SWEET 15 YR OLD / FROM AN ANGRY, TROUBLED HOME / MET A CHARMING OLDER MAN / THE STORY IS WELL KNOWN

AND NATURE RAN IT’S COURSE / AND NATURE HAD IT’S SAY / NATURES ETERNAL SURPRISE / A BABY ON THE WAY
ALL THEY HAD WERE POOR EXAMPLES / EITHER WEAK OR ABSENTEE / HAD TO GROW UP AS THEY LEARNED / TO MAKE A FAMILY

THOUGH IT SHOULD HAVE GONE ALL WRONG / AGAINST ALL ODDS THEIR LOVE WAS STRONG
AND THEY WROTE THEIR OWN LOVE SONG…. …


A JUNIOR INHERITS A WEIGHT / A PATRIMONIAL ESTATE / ALTHOUGH I CARRY ON HIS NAME / I’M NOT THE SAME

BUT I’M STILL LEARNING …AND LISTENING STILL


MY OLDER SISTERS TRIED HIS PATIENCE / THEIR TEENAGE BATTLES PAVED MY WAY / AND I WAS BORN A SON, A JUNIOR /
THEN DAVE A FAVORITE MISTAKE
LOVING, GENEROUS AND KIND / HE BUILT A LIFE TO HIS OWN PLAN / I CAN NOT EVEN IMAGINE / A BETTER FATHER OR A MAN

GONE NOW ALMOST 30 YEARS / WHEN MY PATHWAY ISN’T CLEAR / IT’S HIS GUIDING VOICE I HEAR
AND I’M STILL LISTENING…