Kathy Mattea on "Walking Away A Winner"
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On the top of my desk mid the clutter and dust
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sits an old 5x8 black and white
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It's one of my favorite pictures of us
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I'll carry with me all my life
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I must have been a-bout five or six
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Mom's hair was still brown and Dad's was still thick
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But to look at it now some-times I get scared
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To think that some-day they might not be there
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'Cause who's gonna know but me
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Who'll help me recall those small mem-o-ries
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I'm all that's left of this family of three
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Who's gonna know but me?
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Down in the cellar under the steps
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Sits an old box of junk that I've saved
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Newspaper clippings, letters and cards
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Even some code-a-phone tapes
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Slices of life I can hold in my hand
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And show to my kids so they might under-stand
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In those years to come when they ask me some night
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What Grandma and Grandpa used to be like
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'Cause who's gonna know but me
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Who'll help me recall those small mem-o-ries
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I'm all that's left of this family of three
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Who's gonna know but me?
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If life were a video I could rewind
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I'd go back and slow down each moment in time
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Then I'd disconnect the fast forward button
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So I'd have for-ever to tell 'em I love 'em
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The older I get, I can't get enough of 'em
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'Cause who's gonna know but me
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Who'll help me recall all those mem-o-ries
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I'm all that's left of this family of three
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Who's gonna know but me?
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Who's gonna know but me?