GINNY'S POV
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 girl is now a woman."
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 friend's to
see.
That's Fred 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.