The Broken Ones

By the Talley Trio. Love!

Maggie came home one day with a raggedy, raggedy Ann.
She said " Mama, look what I found in the neighbor's garbage can."
It had a missing left arm, and a right button eye hangin' by a thread
She carried it gently up to her room and laid it on her bed
With her other dolls.

She loves the broken ones, the ones that need a little patchin' up
She sees the diamond in the rough and makes it shine like new
It really doesn't take that much, a willing heart and a tender touch
If everybody loved like she does, there'd be a lot less broken ones.

Twenty years later at a shelter on Eighteenth Avenue
A seventeen year old girl shows up all black and blue
Needle tracks in her left arm, almost too weak to stand,
She says,"I'm lost and I need help", as Maggie takes her hand
And says, "Come on in!"

She loves the broken ones, the ones that need a little patchin' up
She sees the diamond in the rough and makes it shine like new
It really doesn't take that much, a willing heart and a tender touch
If everybody loved like she does, there'd be a lot less broken ones.

If you called her an angel, she'll be quick to say to you
She's just doing what the one who died for her would do:

Love the broken ones, the ones that need a little patchin' up
See the diamond in the rough and make it shine like new
It really doesn't take that much, a willing heart and a tender touch
If everybody loved like he does, there'd be a lot less broken ones.
If everybody loved like he does, there'd be a lot less broken ones.