The Little Girl by John Michael Montgomery
 
Transcribed by: Richard E. Skinner III
 
INTRO: C F C F C Am G X2

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Her Parents never took the young girl to church

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Never spoke of his name, never read her his word

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Two nonbelievers walking lost in this world

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Took their baby with them what a sad little girl

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Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs

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Never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs

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She’d watch the TV and sit there on the couch

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while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out

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and the drinking and the fighting 

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just got worse every night

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behind their couch she'd be hiding

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oh what a sad little life

BRIDGE C F C F C Am G

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And like it always does the bad just got worse

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with every slap and every curse

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until her daddy in a drunk rage one night

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used a gun on her mom and then took his life

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and some people from a city

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took the girl far away

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to a new mom and a new dad

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kisses and hugs every day

BRIDGE ( Same as before)

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her first day of Sunday school the teacher walked in

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and a small little girl stared at a picture of him

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she said I know that man up there on that cross

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I don’t know his name but I know he got off

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cause he was there in my old house

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and held me close to his side

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as I hid there behind our couch

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the night that my parents died....... C F C F C AM G