C
Bobby Darwin's daughter looks up from the bible
F
she's been reading to the clock on her dirty wall of a double wide, it's 3 a.m.
C
Her husband's on the town shooting pool or fooling 'round,
Dm Em
or all of the above it doesn't matter anymore, she can't get through to him
F
Seems like only yesterday they were married in a chapel,
G C
candlelight the whole nine yards, honeymoon in Vegas, they settled down
Dm G
Now it's lonely nights and hungry kids
Dm G C
She just keeps on looking for the life that's not the life she's living now
[Chorus]
Dm G
Bobby Darwin's daughter used to ask her father
C C/E F
where Santa Clause and babies and God came from
Dm G
And as she's gotten older all those easy answers
C C/E F
are somewhere between here and king- dom come
Am G C C/E F
And in her darkest hours, Bobby Darwin's daughter wishes she could go back when
G C
she'd ask where (Ab+)god came from instead of wondering where he's been
C
Bobby Darwin's daughter dropping off the kids driving home
F
in the pouring rain sudden skid and just like that she's clinging to her life
C
Her husband rushes in the tiny room and through his tears whispers, "I love you,
baby please, don't leave me now, you're my only life"
F
He bows his head and prays aloud, "This one thing I promise,
G C
if I could get just one more chance to be the man, I should have been I'll be that man"
Dm G
She a- wakens to another world,
Dm G C
stares into his grateful eyes of love, she smiles at him, he takes her hand
[Chorus]
Dm G
Bobby Darwin's daughter used to ask her father
C C/E F
where Santa Clause and babies and God came from
Dm G
And as she's gotten older all those easy answers
C C/E F
are somewhere between here and king- dom come
Am G C C/E
And in her darkest hours, Bobby Darwin's daughter never saw till now that
F G C
she was wrong about where (Ab+)God came from and that he's been here all along