Help Me Understand-Wilma Lee Cooper

[ti:Help Me Understand] [ar:Wilma Lee Cooper] [al:22 Wilma Lee Cooper Hits - Keep On The Sunny Side] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Help Me Understand - Wilma Lee Cooper [00:16.01]A little girl prayed [00:18.20]At the close of the day [00:21.20] [00:24.20]'Cause her daddy [00:26.15]Had gone far away [00:30.65] [00:31.59]On her little face was [00:34.59]A look of despair [00:36.91] [00:39.21]I stood there and listened [00:42.21]And I heard this prayer [00:46.46] [00:47.41]My mommie says [00:49.15]"Daddy has brought us to shame [00:54.35] [00:54.91]And I'm never no more [00:57.81]To mention his name" [01:02.06] [01:02.68]Lord take me and lead [01:05.19]Me and hold to my hand [01:09.07]Oh heavenly father [01:13.64]Help me understand [01:16.70] [01:21.76]You know friends I wonder [01:23.20]How many homes are broken tonight [01:25.59]And just how many tears are shed [01:28.34]By some little word of anger [01:31.28]That never should have been said [01:33.47]I'd like to tell you a story [01:35.56]Of a family I once knew [01:37.69]Well call them Mary and William [01:40.82]And their little daughter Sue [01:42.62]Now Mary was just a plain mother [01:45.44]And Bill was just a usual dad [01:48.36] [01:49.30]Then one day something happened [01:50.86]It was nothing of course [01:52.87]But one word led to another [01:54.93]And the last word led to a divorce [01:57.96]Now here were two grown up people [02:00.33]Who failed to use common sense [02:03.08]They strengthened [02:04.21]Their own selfish pride [02:05.90]At little Sue's expense [02:07.91]You know she didn't ask [02:09.85]To be brought to this world [02:11.54]To drift from pillar to post [02:13.43]But a divorce never [02:14.99]Stops to consider [02:16.49]The ones it hurts the most [02:18.82]There'd be a lot [02:20.79]More honest loving [02:21.92]In this wicked ole world today [02:23.85]If just a few parted parents [02:26.60]Could hear little Sue say [02:28.89] [02:31.93]My mommie says [02:33.79]"Daddy has brought us to shame [02:37.18] [02:39.37]And I'm never no more [02:42.19]To mention his name" [02:45.81] [02:48.25]Lord take me and lead me [02:50.62]And hold to my hand [02:53.56] [02:56.38]Oh heavenly father [02:59.02]Help me understand