What She Had To Full Lyrics
[00:13.31] I was three years old sitting in the seat
[00:16.59] Of a Greyhound bus, my brother and me
[00:19.21] Mama's tears falling like a Carolina rain
[00:24.13] 'Cause she pulled out a gun the night before
[00:28.77] Said he ain't gonna drink and hit me no more
[00:33.05] She pulled the trigger on my father in a moment's range
[00:38.73] Thank God that gun wasn't loaded
[00:44.62] Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive
[00:50.88] Didn't care, anywhere but there that night
[00:52.69] Now she held her babies tight
[00:55.50] And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
[01:01.23] She was scared, she was broke but all she knew was
[01:04.37] She was gonna do what she had to
[01:10.46] She got her a job in a trailer out west
[01:20.90] It wasn't much but she was doing her best
[01:23.62] Putting food on the table for her family
[01:27.58] But then one day I came home from school
[01:33.18] My mama was crying alone in her room
[01:36.56] She said,? I lost my job and we're gonna lose the trailer too?
[01:42.33] And she got that Volkswagen loaded
[01:47.93] Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive
[01:52.34] Didn't care, anywhere but there that night
[01:55.27] Now she held her babies tight
[02:01.05] And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
[02:06.09] She was scared, she was broke but all she knew was
[02:08.98] She was gonna do what she had to
[02:18.93] Whenever things go wrong in my life
[02:24.36] I just think of her, what it took that night
[02:27.70] To get on that bus in the Carolina rain
[02:34.17] Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive
[02:37.28] Didn't care, anywhere but there that night
[02:40.11] She held her babies tight
[02:45.67] And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
[02:50.70] She was scared, she was broke but all she knew was
[02:53.95] She was gonna do what she had to
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