Lynda chords by Vin Garbutt
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Linda's
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doctor told her
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things were bright right from the start
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Her baby due in January
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to warm her longing heart
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But no sooner had she chose the name
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When she heard that her child
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couldn't ever be the same
As the ones in the street
with the nimble feet
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playing out her normal parts
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Her doctor said later tests had
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led him to believe
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Things were far more serious
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than first he had perceived
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He said her child could be deaf or blind
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with at least a definite defect
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of the spine
And her friend said,
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if the choice were mine,
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I'd see you were relieved
Oh, Linda, your kin can't know
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the torture they put you through
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Or else they'd go head
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in hands in shame
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Our hearts are true,
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but in the wrong place
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You know we'd never
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say to your face
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Anything we thought
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would cause you pain
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Your life is one long giving
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And we've learned to say
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it's not worth living
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And you say, yeah,
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go throw it all again
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To Linda, in the final days,
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that advice sounded good
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She knew her friend meant well,
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but take a life she never could
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So her boy was born on a winter's morn
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With a hole in his back,
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an unholy crown of
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Still Linda smiled on her child newborn
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as she had sworn she would
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Her doctor said there is no hope
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though I'll do what I can
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Linda said as long as I'm not dead
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he'll grow to be a man
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So with optimism and operations
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and to Linda's great expect
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ations.
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Science saved the situation
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to Mother Nature's plan.
And Linda, your kin can't know
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the torture they put you through,
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or else they'd go head in
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hands in shame.
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Our hearts are true,
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but in the wrong place
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You know we'd never
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say to your face
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Anything we thought
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would cause you pain
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Your life is one long giving
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And we'd then have to
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say it's not worth living
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And you say you're going through it all
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again
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Now Kevin's almost seventeen,
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his old levels he's passed
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His mother's heart's a storehouse
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for the pride that she's amassed
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She knew the going would be rough
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but because she's made of the
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stuff that saints are made of
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She says she's been paid back
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with enough love,
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her life to last
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That life is still a struggle
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and for all it's plain to see
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How she ever copes
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remains a mystery to me
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But I know if we could be born again
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in a kindlier world of sober
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men and wo men
Then like the person Linda is,
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the rest of us could be
I know if we could be born again
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in a kindlier world of
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supermen and women
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Like the person Linda is,
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the rest of us would be still
at least young
Kevin's grown to be less
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handicapped than me.
Outro 1
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Lynda
Vin Garbutt
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