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 (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)  x4

C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) It's about fifteen hundred miles to California 
C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1) They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight 
C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning 
            C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)          
  Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1) x2

C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1) He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
   C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
        C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1) No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
             C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1) The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1) 'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1) You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart
           C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1)                        C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1) 'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
   D (xx0232@1)                
  Head to your heart

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1) x2

C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1) They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
   C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1) She's waiting tables and he's a valet
             C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running 
      C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1) 'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah 
       C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1) You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart
           C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1)                        C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1) 'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
   D (xx0232@1)                
  Head to your heart

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)Em (022000@1)                    Bm (x24432@1)                            C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1) Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call
   Em (022000@1)                     Bm (x24432@1)                    C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1) Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months

C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1) She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) Ready or not their new life's gonna start
C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)      D (xx0232@1)  Seven pounds and eighteen inches
              C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)             
  The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1) When you're young and in love, yeah 
       C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1) You might do some things that don't seem all that smart 
        C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1) But thank God for those eighteen inches 
       C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1) The distance it is from your head to your heart

C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)  x4

End on C