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 want one 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
