[00:00.00]David Roth - John And Josie
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[00:23.50]John and Josie's only child
[00:28.73]young and handsome, fast and wild
[00:34.08]join in the army at 18
[00:39.24]left the army at 18
[00:44.96]drift then from job to job
[00:50.31]town to town and love to love
[00:55.67]7 years forever, till young Jonnie came marching home
[01:06.35]but Jonnie wasn't looking well
[01:11.13]went into the hospital
[01:16.91]days turned into several weeks
[01:22.23]Jonnie kept on losing weight
[01:27.60]Josie said that John sit down
[01:33.14]John cried oh god,not my son
[01:38.27]Jonnie left at 25
[01:42.89]hole as big as Jupiter
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[01:50.60]there's nothing stronger than a love
[01:55.71]John and Josie head for Jonnie
[02:01.10]throughing his last birthday party
[02:06.60]no one from the family came
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[02:11.77]no one from the family came
[02:16.92]turns John and Josie's grift to shame
[02:22.08]shame to anger,anger pain
[02:27.55]nothing they needed more now
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[02:54.00]2 years's gone,
[02:55.88]the telephone is ringing in the dim the damn
[03:04.57]beneath the world and cluser face
[03:09.43]but John had punched the day he learned
[03:14.99]that Jonnie he wouldn't live much longer
[03:20.56]now a voice said to his father
[03:25.24]Jonnie have a baby here
[03:30.61]no one seems to want him
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[03:36.44]baby doesn't have his parents
[03:40.99]2 months old and with a pair of eyeless
[03:47.15]Josie grabbed the phone from John
[03:52.29]two of them said yes yes yes
[03:58.01]so John and Josie over 60
[04:03.02]taking in a brand-new baby
[04:08.28]named Paul Antonio
[04:13.79]Jonnie would've loved him
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[04:19.49]nothing stronger than a love
[04:24.40]John and Josie head for Jonnie
[04:29.82]the same love at they've fall apart
[04:35.09]they starting up to win again
[04:40.21]and on the fear that same could happen
[04:45.77]losing paul before his time comes
[04:51.03]John and Josie looked right past it
[04:56.01]they're basketing in love's mighty presents
[05:01.84]John and Josie don't have time
[05:08.48]they're basket in love's mighty presents