• Song:

    How Far Can A Little Girl Fall

  • Artist:

    Terry Kelly

D5
She laid her head on the bar

Watching tiny little stars
      G5                 D5
Dance around in front of her eyes

And he cried on her shoulder 

As he sat there and told her
B5                  A5    G5
Sad stories and pretty white lies
      D5            
And if not for that one indiscretion
                  G5
It would have been an uneventful day
   B5                   A5
If not for that single obsession
           G5                    A5
Things would never have gone that way
          G5                     A5
But she had one last drink and she didn't think twice
   D5                      G5
In fact she didn't think at all
G5          A5                    D5
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?


          D5
They walked out of the bar

She climbed into his car
      G5                        D5
And they drove to somewhere deep in the night
        D5
Where she slipped off her ring

And the rest of her things
      B5                 A5        G5
And he switched off the tiny dome light
                              A5
She fell back in his arms without the slightest alarm
         D5                      G5
Forgetting everything her mama once said
    B5                       A5
And just for a moment in the back of her mind
      G5                      A5
A tiny picture come and went in her head
       G5                  A5
Oh she remembered a man who was waiting at home
      D5                        G5
And a baby barely learning to crawl
G5           A5                    D5
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

B5                  A5
At six fifteen the baby woke up at home
      G5                  D5
And the crying shook her daddy awake
     B5                   A5
At a quarter to seven he made the decision
   G5                        A5         B5
He thought he'd never have to make

        E5
Then at eight forty-five that girl came back to life
       A5                E5
In the back seat of a fancy car
     E5
To a world of disgrace and a smile on the face
      C#5              B5       A5
Of some stranger from a downtown bar
   A5                      B5
At nine o'clock she put the key in the lock
      E5              A5
Just a little too late to explain
           C#5                     B5
But she took one minute more before she opened the door
       A5            B5
She went over her story again
       A5                       B5
Well the child and the man were both long long gone
      E5                        A5
And the note said "Goodbye" and that's all
A5          B5                    E5
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
         A5          B5                    E5
Oh-O-O-Oh  My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
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