She used to come over to my house, she only lived a few
miles away
I never knew why but my mama said if she wanted to she could
stay
A pretty little girl who fought like a boy but she wanted to
hold me hand
And the little blue dress that she always wore,
yeah it might have been her
Only friend
I remember that summer like yesterday she used to hang
around all the time
Down by the creek we would always play and tell secrets by
the porch light
Shy as a bird and timid as a flower,
I wonder where she grew up
I never really thought that much about it,
but everybody said her daddy was
The town drunk
Broken like a bottle,
running from the only hole she ever had,
tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah he thought she was nothing,
growing like a weed on the wrong side of
The trscks
How could anyone not love a girl like that
One afternoon in the middle of town I saw her daddy sleeping
on a bench
So I walked up and introduced myself
and said his daughter was my best friend
He looked at me like he didn't care and asked me for a
couple of bucks
Right then I decided that I'd look after that pretty little
girl whos daddy
Was the town drunk
Broken like a bottle,
running from the only hole she ever had,
tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah he thought she was nothing,
growing like a weed on the wrong side of
The trscks
How could anyone not love a girl like that
a girl like that
Broken like a bottle,
running from the only hole she ever had,
tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah he thought she was nothing,
growing like a weed on the wrong side of
The trscks
How could anyone not love a girl like that
a girl like that
Several years later I read in the paper that her daddy had
passed away
I was holding her hand she had the baby in the other and
there was really
Nothing I could say
She looked at me and I gave her a kiss all that mattered was
he three of us
Nobody thought it would all work out for that pretty little
girl
whos daddy was the town drunk
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