| When I was a child my mama would hold me
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| In her lovin' arms when the storm clouds come along
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| The dark clouds rising, storms a-ragin'
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| She’d sing an old gospel song
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| With the thunder crashing, lightning flashing
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| I found comfort in the words that she would sing
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| Beyond these dark skies there’s a rainbow
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| That only love and the sun will bring
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| When she sang «Amazing Grace»
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| I felt tears in my eyes
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| When she sang «Circle Be Unbroken»
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| I knew there were bluer skies
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| Time rolled on, the circle was broken
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| Mama went on to somewhere beyond the blue
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| I started ramblin' that lost highway
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| And hard livin' took away the little child she knew
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| I started drinking and I started gambling
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| I had no one to look over me
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| There was no blue skies, only sorrow
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| And I could only hear her sing in my memory
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| When she sang «Amazing Grace»
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| I felt tears in my eyes
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| When she sang «Circle Be Unbroken»
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| I knew there were bluer skies
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| I was runnin' with a wild bunch
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| Hanging with the rough and the rowdy kind
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| I was living fast and I was dying young
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| So alone, Lord, I had a worried mind
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| I was drunk and I was hurtin'
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| Somewhere on the streets in New Orleans
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| When I stumbled into a little shelter
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| I saw an angel with a tambourine
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| When she sang «Amazing Grace»
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| I felt tears in my eyes
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| When she sang «Circle Be Unbroken»
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| I knew there were bluer skies
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| When she sang «Amazing Grace»
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| I felt tears in my eyes
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| When she sang «Circle Be Unbroken»
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| I knew there were bluer skies
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| When she sang «Amazing Grace»
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| I felt tears in my eyes
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| When she sang «Circle Be Unbroken»
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| I knew there were bluer skies |