Writers: Coty/Melton 
 
**Capo 1** 
 
Intro: D  D/F#  G  A 
 
    G                        A           D 
She started her new life ten dollars in debt 
G                          A            D 
That?s all it took to get started back then 
  G                        D/F# 
A trip to the courthouse across the state line 
A                            
No one could stop her she?d made up her mind 
       G                A 
He was eighteen and she wasn?t 
 
 
Chorus 1: 
                 D                     D/F# 
But she said she was and never thought twice 
          G                  A 
Came back home as my daddy?s wife 
                   D 
She just shook her head 
               Bm                         G  D/F# Em A 
When her momma said are you sure he?s the one 
      D  D/F#  G  A 
She was 
 
 
G                 A              D 
He took a job and farmed on the side 
G                         A              D 
He made the ends meet but she kept them tied 
G                      D/F# 
Changes were coming to their little world 
          A                          
She said what would you like a boy or a girl 
             G        A 
And he said are you... 
 
 
Chorus 2: 
                 D                     D/F# 
And she said she was and never thought twice 
                  G                           A 
About taking the next step and building their lives 
                 D                   
Soon there were three 
                 Bm               G  D/F# Em A 
And she tried to be everything to us 
        D 
And she was 
 
 
G                      A 
Those precious moments turned into years 
        D             A/C#        Bm7          
In what seemed like a blink of an eye 
G                     D/F# 
I held her hand as I leaned down to ask her 
Em                      A 
Momma are you ready to say goodbye 
 
 
Chorus 3: 
             D                   D/F# 
She said she was but she thought twice 
           G                     A 
Holding my hand as she let go of life 
             D                  
Daddy always said  
             Bm                        G  D/F# Em A 
A woman like her would be hard to give up 
         Bm7  G  D/F# 
And she was 
         Em                    A 
If there ever was a picture of love 
     Bm7  G  A  D 
She was