Joe Nichols – She Was (Guitar)

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She started her new life

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Ten dollars in debt

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And that's all it took to get started back then

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A trip to the court house, across the state line

G
No one could stop her, she'd made up her mind

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He was eighteen, she wasn't

              C
She said she was

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Came back home as my daddy's wife

                    C
She just shook her head

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When her momma said, "Are you sure he's the one?"

     C  Em  C
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 them tight

 F                      C
Changes were coming to their little world

            G
She said, "What would you like, a boy or a girl?"

           F       G
He said, "Are you?"

              C
She said she was

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By taking the next steps and building their lives

                 C
Soon there were three

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She tried to be everything to us

         C
And she was

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Those precious moments turned into years

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In what seemed like a blink of the eye

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I held her hand as I leaned down to tell her

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Momma, are you ready to say goodbye?

              C
She said she was

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Holding my hand as she let go of life

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Daddy always said a woman like her would be hard to give up

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And she was

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If there ever was a picture of love

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She was