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Subject: The Little Girl - John Michael Montgomery
"The Little Girl"
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Key of Db
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Intro: Db Bbm Ab (twice)
Verse
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Her Parents never took the young girl to church
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Never spoke of his name, never read her his word
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Two nonbelievers walking lost in this world
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Took their baby with them what a sad little girl
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Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs
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Never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs
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She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch
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while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out
Bridge
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and the drinking and the fighting
Db Ab
just got worse every night
Ab Bbm Ab Gb
behind their couch she'd be hiding
Db Ab
oh what a sad little life
Repeat Intro: Db Bbm Ab
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And like it always does the bad just got worse
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with every slap and every curse
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until her daddy in a drunk rage one night
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used a gun on her mom and then took his life
Bridge
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and some people from a city
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took the girl far away
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to a new mom and a new dad
Db Ab
kisses and hugs every day
Repeat Intro: Db Bbm Ab
Verse
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her first day of Sunday school the teacher walked in
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and a small little girl stared at a picture of him
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she said I know that man up there on that cross
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I don't know his name but I know he got off
Bridge
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cause he was there in my old house
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and held me close to his side
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as I hid there behind our couch
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the night that my parents died
Outro: Repeat Intro
Chord Chart
E A D G B e
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Db 4 4 3 3 3 4
Bbm 6 8 8 8 6 6
Ab 4 6 6 5 4 4
Gb 2 4 4 3 2 2
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