Eighteen Inches (Lauren Alaina)
2011
Standard Tuning
Capo on the 2nd fret
Chords:
C: x32010
G: 320033 or 320003
D: xx0232
Em: x22000
Bm: x23442
Intro: C G D x4
CGD
It's about fifteen hundred miles to California
CGD
They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight
CGD
She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning
CGD
Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry
C G D x2
CGD
He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway
CGD
She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road
CGD
No friends and no family, no job out there waiting
CGD
The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go
CGD
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
CGD
You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart
CGDCG
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
D
Head to your heart
C G D x2
CGD
They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment
CGD
She's waiting tables and he's a valet
CGD
They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running
CGD
But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved
CGD
'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah
CGD
You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart
CGDCG
'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your
D
Head to your heart
CGDEmBmCGD
Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call
EmBmCGD
Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months
CGD
She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning
CGD
Ready or not their new life's gonna start
CGD
Seven pounds and eighteen inches
CGD
The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart
CGDCGD
When you're young and in love, yeah
CGD
You might do some things that don't seem all that smart
CGD
But thank God for those eighteen inches
CGD
The distance it is from your head to your heart
C G D x4
End on C