Key: C
Introduction:
C
When you have a child
C
You learn it's a serious business
Am D/A Am D/A
To have a little fun
G
You give grace and get forgiveness
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G C
But seven times seventy-one
And when you have a child
G
It's your flesh and bone
Em Am
And year after year
Em Am
Pictures fill page after page
Em Am
They never really grow up
Em Am
Still your baby at any age
Dm
The first time you hold 'em
C
It's like you see God's smile
F G
What a smile
C
When you have a child
And then boy meets girl
Dm
He's got the keys to that old Dodge
C
And she's wearing a corsage
F G
And her mama's pearls
And year after year
C
When you have a child
Am Bb
You pray that phone call never comes
Dm
And if God forbid
C/E
How would you live
F G
How could you go on
G#ยบ Am F
And on and on and on
And year after year