Lyrics The Broken Ones [Live] - Talley Trio

Maggie came home one day with a Raggedy Ann
She said "Mama, look what i found in the neighbors garbage can"
It had a missing left arm, and a right button eye
Hanging 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 patching up
She sees 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 she does
There'd be a lot less broken ones

Twenty years later in a shelter on 18th 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 patching 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 call 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 patching 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