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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><font size="4"><span lang="EN-GB">Vin
Garbutt:<span> </span>LYNDA<span> </span><span></span></span></font></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">sung:<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=cXvCtJYSHu8&feature=emb_logo" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=</a><span lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">lyrics:<span></span></span></p><span lang="EN-GB">Lynda's
doctor told her things bright right from the start<span></span></span>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">A baby
due in January to warm her longing heart,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">But no
sooner had she chosen the name when she heard that<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>her child couldn’t ever be the
same<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">As the
ones in the street with the nimble feet playing <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">out a ‘normal’ part.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Her doctor
said that later tests had led him to believe <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>that things were far more
serious than first he had perceived.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">He said
her child could be deaf or blind with at least a definite<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>defect of the spine <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">And her
friend said, ‘If the choice were mine, I’d say you were relieved.’<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">
</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">CHORUS:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Lynda, your kin can’t know the torture they put
you through,<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.4pt;text-indent:35.4pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">or else they’d go head in hand in
shae.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Our hearts are true, but in the wrong place,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.4pt;text-indent:35.4pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">you know we’d never say to your
face,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.4pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Anything we though would cause you pain.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Your life is one long giving, and we’ve the
nerve to say <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>it’s
not worth living,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">And you say you’d go through it all again.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">To Lynda
in the final days that advice sounded good, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">She knew
her friend meant well, but would take a life she never could.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">So, her
boy was born on a winter’s morn with a hole in his back and an unholy crown of
thorns.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Still
Lynda smiled on her child new born as she had sworn she would. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Her
doctor said, ‘There is no hope, but I’ll do what I can.’<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Lynda
said, ’As long as I’m not dead, he’ll grow to be a man.’ <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">So, with
optimism and operations, and to Lynda’s own great expectations <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Science
saved the situation to Mother Nature’s plan.<span>
</span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">CHORUS<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Now Kevin’s
almost seventeen, his ‘O’ levels he’s passed,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">His
mother’s heart’s a storehouse for the price that she’s amassed,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">She knew
the going would be rough, but because she’s made of the stuff<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">that
saints are made of,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">She says
she’s been paid back with enough love, her life to last.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">That
life is still a struggle and for all, it’s plain to see,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">How she
ever copes remains a mystery to me.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">But I
know if we could be born again in a kindlier world of supermen and women,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Then
like the person Lynda is, the rest of us could be.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">But I
know if we could be born again in a kindlier world of supermen and women,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Then
like the person Lynda is, the rest of us would be.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Still!
At least young Kevin’s grown to be less handicapped … than me.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
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