No Charge-Melba Montgomery

[ti:No Charge] [ar:Melba Montgomery] [al:70's Country - For The Good Times] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]No Charge (免费) - Melba Montgomery [00:07.97]My little boy came into the kitchen this evening [00:10.80]While I was fixing supper [00:11.99] [00:13.13]And he handed me a piece of paper he'd been writing on [00:15.95] [00:17.45]And after wiping my hands on my apron [00:19.63] [00:20.50]I read it and this is what it said [00:24.91] [00:29.35]For mowing the yard five dollars [00:31.44] [00:32.77]Making my own bed this week one dollar [00:35.67] [00:37.11]And going to the store fifty cents [00:39.52] [00:40.89]An playing with little brother while you went shopping twenty five [00:45.78]Cents [00:46.16] [00:50.24]For taking out the trash one dollar [00:52.15] [00:53.73]Getting a good report card five dollars [00:56.61] [00:58.11]And raking the yard two dollars [01:01.36] [01:03.42]Total owed fourteen seventy five [01:07.83] [01:11.46]Well I looked at I'm standing there expectantly [01:14.00] [01:14.71]And a thousand memories flashed through my mind [01:17.26] [01:18.48]So I picked up the pen and I turning the paper over [01:22.02] [01:22.58]This is what I wrote [01:23.88] [01:26.43]For the nine months I carried you [01:29.87] [01:30.43]Growing inside me no charge [01:35.01] [01:36.95]For the nights I've sat up with you [01:40.87]Doctored you prayed for you no charge [01:45.78] [01:47.31]For the time and the tears [01:50.16] [01:51.02]And the cost through the years there's no charge [01:56.05] [01:57.87]When you add it all up [02:00.85]The full cost of my love is no charge [02:06.19] [02:08.23]For the nights filled with dread [02:10.81] [02:11.37]And the worries ahead no charge [02:16.70] [02:18.62]For advice and the knowledge [02:21.68] [02:22.24]And the cost of your college no charge [02:26.98] [02:29.00]For the toys food and clothes and for wiping your nose [02:35.34] [02:36.10]There's no charge son [02:38.00] [02:39.32]When you add it all up [02:42.27]The full cost of my love is no charge [02:47.60] [02:51.00]Well when he finished reading [02:52.22]He had great big old tears in his eyes [02:54.46] [02:55.69]And he looked up at me and he said [02:57.37]Mama I sure do love you [02:59.67] [03:01.46]Then he took the pen [03:02.47]And in great big letters [03:04.18]He wrote paid in full [03:07.26] [03:10.25]When you add it all up [03:12.81] [03:13.70]The cost of real love is no charge