She Was Lyrics

She Was lyrics

She started her new life ten dollars in debt,
That's all it took to get
started back then.
A trip to the courthouse across the state line,
No-one
could stop her,
She'd made up her mind.
He was eighteen, an she
wasn't;

But she said she was,
And never thought twice.
And came
back home as my daddy's wife.
She just shook her head when her mama
said:
"Are you sure he's the one?"
An' she was.

He took a job and
farmed on the side;
He made the ends meet, but she kept 'em
tied.
Chganges were comin' to their little world,
She said: "What would
you like?
"A boy or a girl?"
And he said: "Are you?"

An' she said
she was,
And never thought twice.
'Bout takin' the next step in building
their lives.
Soon there were three and she tried to be,
Everything to
us,
An' she was.

Those precious moments turned into years,
In what
seemed like the blink of an eye.
I held her hand as I leaned down to ask
her,
"Momma, are you ready to say goodbye?"

An' she said she
was,
But she thought twice,
Holdin' my hand as she let go of
life.
Daddy always said a woman like her,
Would be hard to give
up.
An' she was. (She was.)

If there ever was a picture of
love,
She was.