When You Have A Child Lyrics

When you have a child You learn it's a serious business to have a little fun You give grace and get forgiveness Not seven times seventy but seven times seventy one
And when you have a child Those four walls you call a house take on a life of its own When you bring 'em home, you will cry and you will laugh When they hurt it cuts you in half, it's your flesh and bone
And year after year, pictures fill page after page They never really grow up, still your baby at any age The first time you hold 'em, it's like you see God smile What a smile
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 He's got the keys to that old Dodge And she's wearing a corsage 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 smile What a smile
When you have a child You pray that phone call never comes And if God forbid, how would you live How could you go on and on and on and on?
And year after year, close the chapter and turn the page Blue ribbons and losing season, flipping tassels on the stage Oh, but you don't need a photograph You've got at least a million pictures of that smile
Oh, when you close your eyes, when you love a child Oh, when you love a child