Eighteen Inches by Lauren Alaina
Album: Wildflower
Track 9
2011
Standard Tuning
Capo on the 2nd fret
Chords:
C: x32010
G: 320033 or 320003
D: xx0232
Em: x22000
(To play without a capo replace the chords above by D, A, E & F#m)
Intro: C G D x4
C G D Em
It's about fifteen hundred miles to California
C G D
They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight
C G D Em
She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning
C G D G
Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry
C G D x2
C G D Em
He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
C G D
She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
C G D Em
No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
C G D G
The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go
C G D Em
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
C G D
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
C G D Em C G
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
D G
Head to your heart
C G D x2
C G D Em
They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
C G D
She's waiting tables and he's a valet
C G D Em
They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running
C G D G
But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved
C G D Em
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
C G D
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
C G D Em C G
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
D G
Head to your heart
C G D
Em D C D C
Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call
Em D C G C
Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months
C G D Em
She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
C G D
Ready or not their new life's gonna start
C G D Em
Seven pounds and eighteen inches
C G D G
The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart
C G D
C G D Em
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
C G D
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
C G D Em
But thank God for those eighteen inches
C G D G
The distance it is from your head to your heart
C G D x4
End on C