Oh, she's tender but she's tough
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And still willing to love
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If there's a man, man enough to be her man
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But right now her hands are full
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Fighting back the tears and the wolves
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But she keeps smiling just as hard as she can
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CHORUS
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She's twenty-nine and holding the world on
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her shoulders
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They're all counting on mama
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And she ain't about to let them down
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(Oh) There's no time to worry about turning
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thirty
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When you're twenty-nine and holding
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The world on your shoulders
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Yes, the one who she once loved
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Just didn't have the guts
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To be a lover or father or much of a man
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Yeah, he just had to have his space
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So she put him in his place
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Out in the road with his suitcase in his hand
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(Repeat Chorus)
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BRIDGE
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Well, it's the kids and it's the job
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It's the kitchen and it's a mop
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Hey, it's the life of a woman that's on her
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own
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And Lord, I just gotta say
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That we all ought to be ashamed
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If our biggest trouble is just turning old and
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gray
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(Repeat Chorus)
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She's twenty-nine and holding the world on
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her shoulders
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Twenty-Nine and Holding
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Aaron Tippin |