[ Featuring the Traveling City Committee ]
Make a wish, Mary Anne
17 candles on a cookie cake
From out the window looking in
There's a world waiting you could take
Baby sister Loula Bell
Been looking up to you since high chairs
And maybe you could handle daddy's hand
But Lou ain't living in that fear
No Lou ain't going through that hell
Make a wish, Loula Bell
Big back yard full of dandelions
Never been the favorite here
Mary Anne taking all of daddy's time
Missing momma more every day
"Pick me up! Don't drop me off again"
Daddy begging Mary Anne to stay
But her and Lou are moving in
Mary Anne won't be the same again
Make a wish, Mary Anne
On a star in a distant sky
Needing to be whole again
Momma knows your soul and sees it in your eyes
She holds her head and starts to sob
Shaking from the inside out
Telling momma of what she was robbed
What she swore she'd never talk about
Momma holds her tight wiping tears
"I've got you, Mary, I won't let you go"
And they turn to Lou scared to hear, but
Staring back she whispers, no
