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When You Have a Child

When you have a child

You learn it's a serious business to have a little fun

You give grace and get forgiveness

Not seven times seventy but seven times seventy oneAnd when you have a child

Those four walls you call a house take on a life of its own

When you bring 'em home, you will cry and you will laugh

When they hurt it cuts you in half, it's your flesh and boneAnd year after year, pictures fill page after page

They never really grow up, still your baby at any age

The first time you hold 'em, it's like you see God smile

What a smileWhen you have a child and then boy meets girl

And perfume and gasoline rain on your perfect world

Curfews are often broken, thank you's aren't spoken

He's got the keys to that old Dodge

And she's wearing a corsage and her mama's pearlsAnd year after year, pictures fill page after page

They never really grow up, still your baby at any age

And the first time you hold 'em, it's like you feel God smile

What a smileWhen you have a child

You pray that phone call never comes

And if God forbid, how would you live

How could you go on and on and on and on?And year after year, close the chapter and turn the page

Blue ribbons and losing season, flipping tassels on the stage

Oh, but you don't need a photograph

You've got at least a million pictures of that smileOh, when you close your eyes, when you love a child

Oh, when you love a child

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