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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
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Mama and Daddy
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Raised me with lovin' care
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They sacrificed
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So I could have
a better share
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They fed me and nursed me
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And sent me to school
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Mama taught me how to sing
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Daddy lived the Golden Rule
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When I think of the children
alone and afraid
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Abandoned and wild
like a fatherless child
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I think of my mama
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And how she could sing
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Harmony with my daddy
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Our laughter would ring
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Down the highways
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On the beaches
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Just as far
as memory reaches
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I still hear Daddy
singin'his old army songs
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We'd laugh and count horses
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As we drove along
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We were young then
We were together
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We could bear floods and fire
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And bad weather
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And now that I'm older
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Grown up, on my own
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I still love
Mama and Daddy best
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And my Idaho home
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Mama grew up
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On the prairies of Kansas
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She was tender and sweet
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The dust and tornadoes
blew 'round her
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But they left her
straight up on her feet
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My daddy grew up on his own
more or less
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His mama died
when he was just 11
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He had seven sisters
to raise him
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But he dreamed
of his mama in heaven
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His daddy drank whiskey
and had a sharp eye
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He sold chicken medicine
farmers would buy
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Together they hunted
the fields and the farms