Rosie And The Originals – Angel Baby lyrics

I met him when I was 11 and he was 13, my heart skipped a beat, we were at church and he was a cousin of a friend and he became part of our gang and from then on we were forever friends. After I turned 15 he and his cousin would mow my dads lawn every sat. I would get up early and fix my hair and make up, blue jeans and t-shirt just to see him for 30 min. A few years later he left for viet nam, I gave him a bible and a prayer and watch him drive away wanting so badly to wave him back and kiss him good-bye and to be held in his arms, but I didn't. A year later he was wounded and in a body cast for a year, his leg and life was never the same. As the years went by he married and so did I and eventually we ended back in our home town. As we grew older we grew wiser, both having gone through divorce, he remarried and so did I, he never let his leg get him down, he had his own handyman business and he and I worked on my kitchen together and talked about old times. A few years later he had to give up the business, he had cancer and was dying, I would see him from time to time and even though I knew we loved each other and the reason why he felt 50 years ago he had to let me go would be our secret. He was buried this week, with full military honors, as the guns blast and the taps played the tears streamed down my face, underneath the american flag was the coffin that held a husband, father, grandfather, son, brother, friend, war hero and laying beside him was a love letter and a red rose. It has been a few days now and this very morning I was asking him why we never kissed or made love, didn't I mean anything to him, was I suppose to live the rest of my life on what he told me 50 years ago? The wind blew through my hair and dried my tears as I heard him say to me " gloria, didn't you know, you will always be my angel baby? This is a true story, I heard the words in my mind, I hadn't thought of this song in years, so I looked up the lyrics today.