How Far Can A Little Girl Fall chords by Terry Kelly

Written by: Ron Hynes
Posted by: Steve Cater

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She laid her head on the bar

Watching tiny little stars
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Dance around in front of her eyes

And he cried on her shoulder

As he sat there and told her
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Sad stories and pretty white lies
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And if not for that one indiscretion
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It would have been an uneventful day
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If not for that single obsession
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Things would never have gone that way
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But she had one last drink and she didn't think twice
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In fact she didn't think at all
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My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

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They walked out of the bar

She climbed into his car
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And they drove to somewhere deep in the night
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Where she slipped off her ring

And the rest of her things
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And he switched off the tiny dome light
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She fell back in his arms without the slightest alarm
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Forgetting everything her mama once said
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And just for a moment in the back of her mind
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A tiny picture come and went in her head
	 G			A
Oh she remembered a man who was waiting at home
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And a baby barely learning to crawl
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My, my, How far can a little girl fall?

Bm			A
At six fifteen the baby woke up at home
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And the crying shook her daddy awake
     Bm			 A
At a quarter to seven he made the decision
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He thought he'd never have to make

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Then at eight forty-five that girl came back to life
       A		    E
In the back seat of a fancy car
     E
To a world of disgrace and a smile on the face
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Of some stranger from a downtown bar
   A			    B
At nine o'clock she put the key in the lock
	E		  A
Just a little too late to explain
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But she took one minute more before she opened the door
	 A		B
She went over her story again
	 A			     B
Well the child and the man were both long long gone
	E				A
And the note said "Goodbye" and that's all
A	    B			  E
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
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Oh-O-O-Oh  My, my, How far can a little girl fall?