D
She laid her head on the bar

Watching tiny little stars
      G                 D
Dance around in front of her eyes

And he cried on her shoulder 

As he sat there and told her
Bm                  A    G
Sad stories and pretty white lies
      D            
And if not for that one indiscretion
                  G
It would have been an uneventful day
   Bm                   A
If not for that single obsession
           G                    A
Things would never have gone that way
          G                     A
But she had one last drink and she didn't think twice
   D                      G
In fact she didn't think at all
G          A                    D
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?


          D
They walked out of the bar

She climbed into his car
      G                        D
And they drove to somewhere deep in the night
        D
Where she slipped off her ring

And the rest of her things
      Bm                 A        G
And he switched off the tiny dome light
                              A
She fell back in his arms without the slightest alarm
         D                      G
Forgetting everything her mama once said
    Bm                       A
And just for a moment in the back of her mind
      G                      A
A tiny picture come and went in her head
       G                  A
Oh she remembered a man who was waiting at home
      D                        G
And a baby barely learning to crawl
G           A                    D
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

Bm                  A
At six fifteen the baby woke up at home
      G                  D
And the crying shook her daddy awake
     Bm                   A
At a quarter to seven he made the decision
   G                        A         B
He thought he'd never have to make

        E
Then at eight forty-five that girl came back to life
       A                E
In the back seat of a fancy car
     E
To a world of disgrace and a smile on the face
      C#m              B       A
Of some stranger from a downtown bar
   A                      B
At nine o'clock she put the key in the lock
      E              A
Just a little too late to explain
           C#m                     B
But she took one minute more before she opened the door
       A            B
She went over her story again
       A                       B
Well the child and the man were both long long gone
      E                        A
And the note said "Goodbye" and that's all
A          B                    E
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
         A          B                    E
Oh-O-O-Oh  My, my, How far can a little girl fall?