Intro: CGD x4
CGDEm
It's about fifteen hundred miles to California
CGD
They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight
CGDEm
She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning
CGDG
Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry
CGD x2
CGDEm
He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
CGD
She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
CGDEm
No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
CGDG
The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go
CGDEm
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
CGD
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
CGDEmCG
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
DG
Head to your heart
CGD x2
CGDEm
They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
CGD
She's waiting tables and he's a valet
CGDEm
They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running
CGDG
But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved
CGDEm
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
CGD
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
CGDEmCG
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
DG
Head to your heart
CGDEmDCDC
Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they want one
EmDCGC
Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months
CGDEm
She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
CGD
Ready or not their new life's gonna start
CGDEm
Seven pounds and eighteen inches
CGDG
The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart
CGDCGDEm
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
CGD
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
CGDEm
But thank God for those eighteen inches
CGDG
The distance it is from your head to your heart
CGD x4
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