The Life a Country Girl Should Lead

Strange man in town. He took her by surprise

He wasn’t much to look at but there was something in his eyes

He didn’t seem at all like the boys she knew from school

She didn’t stand a chance. She didn’t know the rules.

She didn’t know the dance. The poor fool.

 

He told her she was pretty and much more

He bought her things and touched her like she’d never felt before

Her Daddy’s words of warning were fading from her ears

His arms around her Momma. She was chokin’back the tears.

Trying hard to hide her worse fears.

 

Would she be kicked, would she be bruised?

Would she be knocked, would she be used?

Would she be clinging on to any sense of dignity?

All these fears, and all this pain

Would her baby ever be the same?

And would she live the life a country girl should lead?

 

He told her she’d be happy all her life

She followed him to the city where she became his wife.

 

The beatings took her body, the cheating took her mind

She fell into the bottle, her soft skin turned to lines.

She found the strength to close that door one last time.

 

‘Cause she’d been kicked, and she’d been bruised

She’d been knocked, she’d been used

And then she made her plan to save her dignity.

Her hidden cameras told the tale. The judge agreed, sent him to jail

It was not the life a country girl should lead

 

She’d been kicked, and she’d been bruised

She’d been knocked, and she’d been used

And so she made a plan to end her misery.

Her hidden cameras told the tale. The judge agreed, sent him to jail.

And now she lives the life a country girl should lead.

And now she lives the life a country girl should lead.