[ti:John  and  Josie]
[ar:David  Roth]
[al:Pearl  Diver]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]John and Josie - David Roth
[00:23.00]John and Josie's only child
[00:27.23]
[00:28.24]Young and handsome  fast and wild
[00:33.64]Joined the army at eighteen
[00:37.50]
[00:39.04]Left the army at eighteen
[00:42.50]
[00:44.41]Drifted then from job to job
[00:48.25]
[00:49.67]Town to town and love to love
[00:53.08]
[00:55.08]Seven years forever
[00:57.06]
[00:58.25]Til young Johnny came marching home
[01:02.61]
[01:05.90]But Johnny wasn't looking well
[01:08.58]
[01:11.25]Went into the hospital
[01:13.42]
[01:16.47]Days turned into several weeks
[01:21.70]Johnny kept on losing weight
[01:24.94]
[01:27.00]Josie said to John "Sit down"
[01:30.54]
[01:32.30]John cried "Oh God  not my son"
[01:37.81]Johnny left at twenty five
[01:40.79]
[01:43.14]A hole as big as Jupiter
[01:46.42]
[01:50.27]Nothing stronger than the love John
[01:55.62]And Josie had for Johnny
[01:58.82]
[02:00.56]Threw him his last birthday party
[02:04.40]
[02:05.80]No one from the family came
[02:09.52]
[02:11.17]No one from the family came
[02:14.90]
[02:16.26]Turned John and Josie's grief to shame
[02:20.42]
[02:21.39]Shame to anger  anger pain
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[02:26.88]Nothing they needed more of
[02:29.93]
[02:53.43]Two years gone  the telephone
[02:58.58]Is ringing in the dim-lit den
[03:02.08]
[03:03.96]Beneath the wooden crucifix
[03:07.08]
[03:09.00]That John had punched the day he learned
[03:13.12]
[03:14.32]That Johnny wouldn't live much longer
[03:18.48]
[03:19.62]Now a voice said to his father
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[03:25.06]"John  we have a baby here
[03:27.93]
[03:30.32]And no one seems to want him
[03:33.18]
[03:36.06]The baby doesn't have his parents
[03:39.30]
[03:41.17]Two months old and with their virus "
[03:45.06]
[03:46.57]Josie grabbed the phone from John
[03:50.25]
[03:51.69]The two of them said "Yes  yes  yes"
[03:55.58]
[03:56.84]So John and Josie  over sixty
[04:02.48]Taking in a brand new baby
[04:06.28]
[04:07.55]Named him Paul Antonio
[04:10.07]
[04:13.31]Johnny would have loved him
[04:17.18]
[04:18.98]Nothing stronger than the love
[04:21.73]
[04:23.88]That John and Josie had for Johnny
[04:29.44]The same love that they have for Paul
[04:33.19]
[04:34.31]They're starting up the wheel again
[04:38.07]
[04:40.23]And of the fear the same could happen
[04:43.83]
[04:45.20]Losing Paul before his time comes
[04:49.18]
[04:50.59]John and Josie look right past it
[04:55.91]They're basking in love's mighty presence
[05:00.49]
[05:02.63]John and Josie don't have time
[05:06.14]
[05:07.76]They're basking in love's mighty presence