She started her new life ten dollars in debt
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That's all it took to get started back then
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A trip to the courthouse across the state line
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No one could stop her, she'd made up her mind
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He was eighteen, she wasn't
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But she said she was and never thought twice
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Came back home as my daddy's wife
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She just shook her head when her momma said
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"Are you sure he's the one"
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She was
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He took a job and farmed on the side
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He made the ends meet, but she kept 'em tied
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Changes were coming to their little world
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She said "What would you like, a boy or a girl"
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and He said "Are you"
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She said she was and never thought twice
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'Bout takin the next step in building their lives
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Soon there were three and she tried to be
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Everything to us
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And she was
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Those precious moments turned into years
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In what seemed like the blink of an eye
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I held her hand as I leaned down to ask her
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"Momma, are you ready to say goodbye"
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She said she was but she thought twice
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Holdin' my hand as she let go of life
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Daddy always said a woman like her
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Would be hard to give up
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And she was
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She was
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If there ever was a picture of love,
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She was
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She Was
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Mark Chesnutt |