One Good Woman

歌詞

Mary Chilton never knew what the salty winds would do When she stepped aboard and sailed away on a 1620 autumn day At Plymouth Rock she was the first to touch dry ground But she became an orphan when the winter came and the tears fell down But she grew, and married a good man And they had eleven children And they would never understand what she'd been through but they knew That a girl of just thirteen Crossed one big ocean And that she grew up to be One good woman And Polly Angel didn't know what the hands of time would show When she dressed in white and said, "I do" in the fall of 1832 Her life would change that very year forever more When they heard the message of two strangers at their door they headed west And Polly had six children, but only two survived And they could never understand what she'd been through But they knew that a woman of great faith Crossed one big country And that they were being raised By one good woman There they are, written in the spaces of a family tree Till it al comes down to me I know that I can never say that I'm the only one who's prayed For pain to end or love to last or for time not to go by so fast But it will fly and in a hundred years from now Will there ever be someone who reads my name and wonders If I laughed Or if I believed in Jesus Or if my heart were ever broken They may never understand what I go through But I will live the best that I know how For one big lifetime It's not too much to ask Of one good woman