She Was

She started her new life

Ten dollars in debt

And 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 18, she wasn't

She said she was, never thought twice

Came back home as my daddy's wife

She just shook her head

When her momma said, "Are you sure he's the one?"

And she was

He took a job, and farmed on the side

He made the ends meet, but she kept them tight

Changes were coming to their little world

She said, "What would you like, a boy or a girl?"

He said, "Are you?"

She said she was, never thought twice

About taking the next step and building their lives

Soon there were three

She tried to be everything to us

And she was

Those precious moments turned into years

In what seemed like a blink of the eye

I held her hand as I leaned down to tell her

Momma, are you ready to say goodbye?

She said she was, she thought twice

Holding 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