Mark Cestnutt - "She Was"



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's made up her mind.
He was eighteen, and 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?"
But she was.

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

And she said she was,
And never thoguht twice
'Bout takin' the next step in building their lives.
Soon there were three, and she tried to be
Everything to us.
And 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,
"Mama, are you ready to say goodbye?"

And 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,
And she was.

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


 

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