When You Have A Child chords by Reba Mcentire

Chords with lyrics

CAPO 1st Fret:

     Cadd11  C majorC
When you have a child
  Cadd11        C majorC
You learn it's a serious business
     A minorAm   D/AD/A  A minorAm   D/AD/A
To have a little fun
     Gadd11     G+G
You give grace and get forgiveness
   Gadd11
Not seven times seven
  G+G          Cadd11 C majorC Cadd11  C majorC
But seven times seventy-one

And when you have a child
Those four walls you call a house
Take on a life of it's own
When you bring 'em home
You will cry and you will laugh
When they hurt it cuts you in half
                Gadd11   G+G
It's your flesh and bone

  E minorEm     A minorAm
And year after year
     E minorEm       A minorAm
Pictures fill page after page
   E minorEm      A minorAm
They never really grow up
      E minorEm     A minorAm
Still your baby at any age
  DmDm
The first time you hold 'em
   C majorC
It's like you see God's smile
    FF     Gadd11  G+G
What a smile

     Cadd11  C majorC
When 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

       DmDm
He's got the keys to that old Dodge
     C majorC
And she's wearing a corsage
    FF        Gadd11  G+G
And her mama's pearls

And 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's smile
What a smile

     Cadd11  C majorC
When you have a child

  A minorAm          Bb majorBb
You pray that phone call never comes
    DmDm
And if God forbid
  C/EC/E
How would you live
FF        G+G
How could you go on
  G#dimG#dim     A minorAm  FF
And on and on and on



And year after year
Close the chapter and turn the page
Blue ribbons and losing seasons
Flipping tassles on the stage
Oh but you don't need a photograph

You've got at least a million
Pictures of that smile

When you close your eyes
When you love a child
Ohh when you love a child