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