Sixteen Years - Chatham County Line

Lone in a car finally sixteen years

Everything in life seems to disappear

Rode down and when I thought alone outside

All us men have known this pride

Pull up to the curve around you

You’re the right type of girl who’s old and true

But the calling on the radio dial

She’s like pudding in the hands of a child

Hands of a child

She came easy like a dough in heat

Screaming like a vapor and I found to see

And a steady a hand never wiped her tears

She became a mother at sixteen years

Sixteen years to the day

That her mother had her, now she’s another

The world goes round that sun

Another sixteen years

They all say she looks just like you

That little girl smiling in your rearview

You should’ve been offering no lies

She has your face but her mother’s eyes

You never believed that’ll come a day

She’ll grow to understand every word you say

Show her how to put the car in gear

Now she knows it all at sixteen years

Sixteen years to the day

That her mother had her, now she’s a woman

The world goes round that sun

Another sixteen years

One arm around the love of your life

The woman as a boy you took for your wife

But you know that rising line

You pulled that machine back in time

Press the gas pedal, the lines disappear

You’re not much older than sixteen years

Sixteen years to the day

That your mother had you, you’re as old as her now

And the world goes round that sun

Another sixteen years

Sixteen years