C*

E -
A 2
D 3
G 0
B 1
E 0 / -




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


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

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


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