Lauren Alaina – Eighteen Inches (Guitar)

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Album: Wildflower Track 9 2011 Chords: C: x32010 G: 320033 or 320003 D: xx0232 Em: x22000 (To play without a capo replace the chords above by D, A, E & F#m) Intro: C G D x4
            C          G      D           Em
  It's about fifteen hundred miles to California 

C                     G         D         
  They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight 

C             G             D           Em
  She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning 

            C            G        D          G    
  Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry
C G D x2
   C          G               D             Em
  He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway

 C                   G             D          
  She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road

        C            G          D             Em
  No friends and no family, no job out there waiting

              C              G              D         G
  The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go

           C    G       D          Em
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 

       C              G                D           
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart

           C    G     D         Em               C          G
  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your

   D             G     
  Head to your heart
C G D x2
            C           G         D       Em
  They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment

   C             G          D     
  She's waiting tables and he's a valet

             C           G             D           Em
  They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running 

      C          G             D              G
  But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved

           C    G       D          Em
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 

       C              G                D           
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart

           C    G     D         Em               C          G
  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your

   D             G     
  Head to your heart 
C G D
   Em                       D                               C    D   C
  Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they want one

   Em                       D                       C    G     C
  Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months

C               G            D            Em
  She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning

C           G             D          
  Ready or not their new life's gonna start

C         G       D     Em
  Seven pounds and eighteen inches

              C             G           D            G    
  The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart
C G D
           C    G       D          Em
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 

       C              G                D           
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart        

        C    G           D         Em
  But thank God for those eighteen inches 

       C          G             D            G
  The distance it is from your head to your heart
C G D x4 End on C