Eighteen Inches (Lauren Alaina)
Album: Wildflower
2011

Standard Tuning

Capo on the 2nd fret

Chords:

C:   x32010
G:   320033 or 320003
D:   xx0232
Em:  x22000
Bm:  x23442


  Intro:    C     G    D    x4

 
            C       G             D
  It's about fifteen hundred miles to California 
C                    G           D
  They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight 
C             G             D
  She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning 
            C           G           D            
  Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry

  C    G    D   x2

  C            G              D
  He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
   C                 G             D
  She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
        C               G       D
  No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
             C                   G          D
  The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go


          C    G       D
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       C              G                D
  You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart
           C    G     D                          C          G
  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
   D                  
  Head to your heart

  C    G    D   x2


            C           G         D
  They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
   C             G          D
  She's waiting tables and he's a valet
             C           G             D
  They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running 
      C          G             D
  But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved


         C    G       D
  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       C              G                D
  You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart
           C    G     D                          C          G
  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
   D                  
  Head to your heart

  C    G    D

   
   Em                      Bm                              C     G    D
  Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call
   Em                       Bm                      C    G    D
  Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months

 
C               G            D
  She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
C           G             D
  Ready or not their new life's gonna start
C         G        D 
  Seven pounds and eighteen inches
              C             G           D               
  The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart

  C    G    D


   C    G       D
  When you're young and in love, yeah 
       C              G                D
  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart 
        C    G           D
  But thank God for those eighteen inches 
       C          G             D
  The distance it is from your head to your heart

  C    G    D    x4

  End on C