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Was any one of us to be doing it...
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...we'd not have made this poor boy
into a cripple.
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But, Lord, in a way of speaking,
you made it up to him.
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You give him a way
with the wild critters.
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You give him a sort of wisdom.
Made him knowing and gentle.
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And now you've seen fit
to take him...
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...where being crookedy
in mind or limb don't matter.
:22:33
But, Lord, it pleasures us to think now
you've straightened out them legs.
:22:39
It pleasures us to think on him
walking around as easy as anyone.
:22:44
And Lord, give him a few redbirds...
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...and maybe a squirrel or a coon
to keep him company, like he had here.
:22:53
All of us is somehow lonesome...
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...and we know he'll not be lonesome,
do he have wild things around him.
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If it ain't asking too much,
put a few varmints in heaven.
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Thy will be done.
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Amen.