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