G                       D                       G  
she was in the backyard say it was a little past nine
G                      C
when her prince pulled up
               G 
a white pickup truck
     
her folks should have seen it comin' 
       D                     G
it was only just a matter of time
              C  
plenty old enough
                   G
and you cant stop love
                                     D                  G
she stuck a note on the screen door "sorry but i got to go"
                 C                          G   
that was all she wrote her mama's heart was broke
                     C                      G
and that was all she wrote and so the story goes


Em                             D                   
now her daddys in the kitchen starin' out the window 
C                             G 
scratchin and a rackin at his brains
Em                            D            C
how could eighteen years just up and walk away
Em                               D                
our little ponytailed girl growned up to be a woman
         C                        G
now shes gone in the blink of an eye
               D                        D                       G
she left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hangin out on a line


G                                            D                   G       
now dont you wonder what the preachers gonna preach about sunday morn
                   C                        G
nothin' quite like this has happened here before
   G                            D                      G
well he must have been a looker smooth talkin son of a gun
                    C                G
for such a grounded girl just up and run
                      C                      G
course you cant fence time and you cant stop love

G                                          D               
Now all the biddy's in the beauty shop gossip goin' nonstop 
C                  G
sippin on pink lemonade
Em                             D           C
how could eighteen years just up and walk away
           Em                      D
Our little pony-tailed girl growed up to be a woman
           C                      G
Now she's gone in the blink of an eye
             G               
She left the suds in the bucket
        D                          G
And the clothes hangin' out on the line

Em                                     D            
She's got her pretty little bare feet hangin' out the window
            C                     G
And they're headin' up to Vegas tonight
       G                D            C
How could 18 years just up and walk away
           Em                     D                        
Our little pony-tailed girl grown up to be a woman
          C                       G
Now she's gone in the blink of an eye
             G                  
She left the suds in the bucket
         D                          G
And the clothes hangin' out on the line

G                       D                       G  
she was in the backyard say it was a little past nine
G                      C
when her prince pulled up
               G                  C                      G             
a white pickup truck plenty old enough and you cant stop love
                    C                      G
and you cant fence time and you cant stop love

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