When I Was Just a Young Girl

When I was just a young girl,

Living in my home town,

There was no place in the world I'd rather be.

But then one day, you went away;

You left behind your daddy's farm,

To take up arms

In the fight for your country.

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And I stayed home in Arkansas,

Doing my homework by the phone.

And every day I ran to check

The mailbox by the road.

And I grew up in Arkansas,

Praying for your safe return,

Wishing by the moon

That soon you'd come back home.

When I was just a young girl,

I put you on a pedestal,

And I guess you always knew

Of my sweet crush on you.

But you'd always smile, and stay awhile,

You'd laugh at the jokes I told.

You'd put your coat around me,

And walk me home when it was cold.

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I ran into your daddy

Just a few weeks ago,

He told me you were living now

In dowtown San Diego.

He said you'd always yearned for the city life,

That you had a good job and a pretty wife.

And the years I've waited just dissipated

And I realised something I've always known,

You were never coming home.

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