[00:12.98]She used to come over to my house,
[00:15.85]She only lived a few miles away
[00:19.16]I never knew why but my mama said
[00:21.97]If she wanted to she could stay
[00:25.53]A pretty little girl who fought like a boy,
[00:28.47]But she wanted to hold my hand
[00:31.78]And the little blue dress that she always wore,
[00:34.72]Yeah it might have been her only friend
[00:38.22].
[00:44.40]I remember that summer like yesterday
[00:47.40]She used to hang around all the time
[00:50.90]Down by the creek we would always play
[00:53.71]And tell secrets by the porch light
[00:57.08]Shy as a bird and timid as a flower,
[01:00.03]I wonder where she grew up
[01:03.21]I never really thought that much about it,
[01:06.40]But everybody said her daddy was the town drunk
[01:10.96].
[01:13.21]Broken like a bottle,
[01:15.96]Running from the only home she ever had,
[01:20.15]Tangled in the talk behind her back
[01:25.20]Yeah he thought she was nothing,
[01:28.07]Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
[01:34.88]How could anyone not love a girl like that
[01:42.39].
[01:44.63]One afternoon in the middle of town
[01:47.38]I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench
[01:51.84]So I walked up and introduced myself
[01:53.97]And said his daughter was my best friend
[01:57.21]He looked at me like he didn't care
[02:00.15]And asked me for a couple of bucks
[02:03.34]Right then I decided that I'd look after
[02:06.47]That pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk
[02:10.59].
[02:13.03]Broken like a bottle,
[02:14.90]Running from the only home she ever had,
[02:20.21]Tangled in the talk behind her back
[02:25.40]Yeah he thought she was nothing,
[02:28.17]Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
[02:34.92]How could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like that
[02:45.10].
[02:51.14]Broken like a bottle,
[02:53.71]Running from the only home she ever had,
[02:58.08]Tangled in the talk behind her back
[03:03.21]Yeah he thought she was nothing,
[03:06.15]Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
[03:12.84]How could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like that
[03:25.09].
[03:28.84]Several years later I read in the paper
[03:31.59]That her daddy had passed away
[03:34.96]I was holding her hand, she had the baby in the other
[03:37.96]And there was really nothing I could say
[03:41.27]She looked at me and I gave her a kiss
[03:44.21]All that mattered was the three of us
[03:47.71]Nobody thought it would all work out
[03:50.45]For that pretty little girl
[03:53.45]Whose daddy was the town drunk